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title: "Container Service Templates"
description: "Deploy container services on AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud with Pulumi Container Service templates."
url: "https://www.pulumi.com/dev/templates/container-service/"
image: "https://www.pulumi.com/assets/og/dev/templates/container-service.png"
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# Container Service Templates

Deploy container services on AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud with Pulumi Container Service templates.

## 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](https://www.pulumi.com/registry/packages/aws/api-docs/ecs/) for AWS-native orchestration, [Amazon EKS](https://www.pulumi.com/registry/packages/eks/) for managed Kubernetes, and [AWS Fargate](https://www.pulumi.com/registry/packages/awsx/api-docs/ecs/fargateservice/) for serverless compute behind either.
- **Azure**: [Azure Container Instances (ACI)](https://www.pulumi.com/registry/packages/azure-native/api-docs/containerinstance) for serverless single-container workloads, and [Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)](https://www.pulumi.com/registry/packages/azure-native/api-docs/containerservice/managedcluster) for managed Kubernetes.
- **Google Cloud**: [Cloud Run](https://www.pulumi.com/registry/packages/gcp/api-docs/cloudrun) for serverless containers, and [Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)](https://www.pulumi.com/registry/packages/gcp/api-docs/container/cluster) 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.