Azure Container Service vs Joyent Triton: What are the differences?

What is Azure Container Service? Deploy and manage containers using the tools you choose. Azure Container Service optimizes the configuration of popular open source tools and technologies specifically for Azure. You get an open solution that offers portability for both your containers and your application configuration. You select the size, the number of hosts, and choice of orchestrator tools, and Container Service handles everything else.

What is Joyent Triton? Transform an entire data center into an easy to manage, elastic Docker host. Simple and proven. Securely deploy and operate containers with bare metal speed on container-native infrastructure, your cloud or ours.

Azure Container Service and Joyent Triton belong to "Containers as a Service" category of the tech stack.

Some of the features offered by Azure Container Service are:

• Create a container hosting solution optimized for Azure
• Scale and orchestrate applications using Apache Mesos or Docker Swarm
• Use popular open source, client-side tooling

On the other hand, Joyent Triton provides the following key features:

• Bare metal performance
• Container-native networking
• Container-native networking