Kubernetes is built on top of docker, etcd is used as a secret store for kube, and terraform is for infra as code. Google cloud platform offers kubernetes as a

Kubernetes is built on top of docker, etcd is used as a secret store for kube, and terraform is for infra as code. Google cloud platform offers kubernetes as a service. CoreOS Tectonic has the AWS plugin, and Azure has "Container Service". You can run kube on your own hardware, but the idea is that the service itself can just magically ask for more nodes which implies either on-prem cloud our the actual cloud cloud.