This chapter proposes the most common deployment methods that are used on popular cloud services as well as on-premises, although you will certainly find a number of other tutorials on the internet explaining other approaches. This chapter explains the differences between managed/hosted cloud services versus self-managed cloud or on-premises Kubernetes deployments and the advantages of one vendor over another.

In this chapter, we will be covering the following recipes:

• Configuring a Kubernetes cluster on Amazon Web Services
• Configuring a Kubernetes cluster on Google Cloud Platform
• Configuring a Kubernetes cluster on Microsoft Azure 
• Configuring a Kubernetes cluster on Alibaba Cloud
• Configuring and managing Kubernetes clusters with Rancher
• Configuring Red Hat OpenShift
• Configuring a Kubernetes cluster using Ansible
• Troubleshooting installation issues