Azure Container Service vs Tectonic: What are the differences?

Developers describe Azure Container Service as "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. On the other hand, Tectonic is detailed as "The smartest way to run your container infrastructure". A CoreOS + Kubernetes platform to run Linux containers.

Azure Container Service and Tectonic can be categorized as "Containers as a Service" tools.

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, Tectonic provides the following key features:

• Deploy code on a container-native stack
• Flexible architectures for each app
• Automatic load balancing for services