## Container Service on AWS

Deploy a container service on AWS with Pulumi and Amazon ECS.

## Container Service on Azure

Deploy a container service on Azure with Pulumi and Azure Container Instances.

## Container Service on Google Cloud

Deploy a container service on Google Cloud with Pulumi and Google Cloud Run.

## About these templates

### What is a container service?

A container service is a managed cloud offering that runs containerized applications without requiring you to operate the underlying servers. The service handles container scheduling, scaling, networking, and (for Kubernetes-based options) cluster management. Containers themselves are lightweight, isolated runtime environments that package an application together with its dependencies, typically built from a Docker image.

### Which container service should I use on each cloud?

The major clouds each offer several container services with different operational tradeoffs:

- **AWS**: Amazon ECS for AWS-native orchestration, Amazon EKS for managed Kubernetes, and AWS Fargate for serverless compute behind either.
- **Azure**: Azure Container Instances (ACI) for serverless single-container workloads, and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) for managed Kubernetes.
- **Google Cloud**: Cloud Run for serverless containers, and Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) for managed Kubernetes.

### How do I deploy a container service with Pulumi?

Use one of the Container Service templates above to scaffold a complete Pulumi project that provisions a container service and the infrastructure it depends on, including a registry for your container image and a load balancer or HTTPS endpoint where applicable. Templates are available in TypeScript, Python, Go, and C# (plus YAML on AWS), and each one deploys end to end with `pulumi new` followed by `pulumi up`.

### What languages can I use to define container infrastructure with Pulumi?

Pulumi lets you define container infrastructure in TypeScript or JavaScript, Python, Go, Java, .NET (C#), or YAML. You use the same language for both your application and its infrastructure, with full editor tooling, package management, and testing support.