There are multiple orchestration or deployment tools available in the market, both in the open source world and in the enterprise world. The industry has rapidly changed over the past few years, moving away from enterprise products and adapting open source solutions instead. While enterprise products have great features that are well tested, their cost is one of the biggest factors driving the trend toward open source tools. We are going to focus more on recent trends and open source tools, as these can be downloaded easily on your local setup.

Currently, in the container domain, the major players are Docker and rkt. rkt is the default container option in the CoreOS container operating system, while Docker can be used with all operating systems.

The three most common tools that are trending in the container platform deployment or orchestration market are the following:

• Kubernetes
• Red Hat's OpenShift (it uses Kubernetes)
• CI/CD-based tools such as Jenkins, TeamCity, and GoCD