Azure Kubernetes Engine

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Kubernetes is an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications.. It groups containers that make up an application into logical units for easy management and discovery. Kubernetes builds upon 15 years of experience of running production workloads at Google, combined with best-of-breed ideas and practices from the community.

A Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) for cloud computing provided by Google. All applications hosted with Google App Engine is housed and managed in the same data centers that Google use for their product line. Google App Engine sandbox each individual instance and run them across multiple servers to achieve maximum uptime and fault tolerance.

Rancher enables organizations to easily run containers in production. It is a complete free and open-source software stack for teams adopting containers. With Rancher, you no longer have to build a container services platform from scratch by combining various open source technologies. Rancher addresses the operational and security challenges of managing multiple Kubernetes clusters, while providing DevOps teams with integrated tools for running containerized workloads.

HashiCorp Nomad is a simple and flexible workload orchestrator to deploy and manage containers and non-containerized applications across on-prem and clouds at scale.