Full Disclosure: I'm a Red Hat Consultant for OpenShift. There's lots of Container platforms these days. Docker Swarm, Rancher, OpenShift (and it's upstream p

Full Disclosure: I'm a Red Hat Consultant for OpenShift. There's lots of Container platforms these days. Docker Swarm, Rancher, OpenShift (and it's upstream project, OpenShift Origin), still others. IMO, the leading edge ones are based on Kubernetes [00]. I'm (obviously) most familiar with OpenShift so I'll speak to that and I'll answer questions honestly if you have them for me. From field experience, once you have your hardware or VMs ready [0][1][2][3], it takes 10 minutes to stand up a one node cluster or about 30 minutes for an HA cluster with 9 nodes (3 masters, 3 infrastructure nodes, 3 application nodes). We have blogs written by Eric Schabell [4] that show you how install a basic system with a script in minutes. We also have minishift [5] (downstream of minikube [6]) which is another great way to try OpenShift on Linux, MacOS, or Windows with Vagrant and VirtualBox. Paying customers can download CDK [7] on RHEL, MacOS or Windows. You can also try it at OpenShift Online [8] (hosted OpenShift as a Service) or OpenShift.io [9] (IDE and DevOps tools integrated with OpenShift Online). I hope the above doesn't sound too much like an advertisement but we offer several FOSS ways to try it and I linked to upstreams where applicable. [00] https://kubernetes.io/ https://kubernetes.io/ [0] https://docs.openshift.org/3.6/install_config/install/prerequisites.html https://docs.openshift.org/3.6/install_config/install/prereq... [1] https://docs.openshift.org/3.6/install_config/install/host_preparation.html https://docs.openshift.org/3.6/install_config/install/host_p... [2] https://docs.openshift.org/3.6/getting_started/administrators.html https://docs.openshift.org/3.6/getting_started/administrator... [3] https://docs.openshift.org/3.6/install_config/install/advanced_install.html#install-config-install-advanced-install https://docs.openshift.org/3.6/install_config/install/advanc... [4] http://www.schabell.org/2017/08/cloud-happiness-how-to-install-new-openshift-v36-in-minutes.html http://www.schabell.org/2017/08/cloud-happiness-how-to-insta... [5] https://github.com/minishift/minishift https://github.com/minishift/minishift [6] https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/tools/install-minikube/ https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/tools/install-minikube/ [7] https://developers.redhat.com/products/cdk/download/ https://developers.redhat.com/products/cdk/download/ [8] https://www.openshift.com/features/index.html https://www.openshift.com/features/index.html [9] https://openshift.io/ https://openshift.io/