Alternative platforms Minikube - https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube Tectonic - https://coreos.com/tectonic/ Free/cheap, somewhat easy Kubernetes on AWS https://github.com/kubernetes-incubator/kube-aws Heptio - (k8s quickstart on AWS) https://aws.amazon.com/quickstart/architecture/heptio-kubernetes/ https://github.com/heptio/aws-quickstart