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Working with other providers

By default, Kubernetes uses the GCE provider for Google Cloud. We can override this default by setting the KUBERNETES_PROVIDER environment variable. The following providers are supported with values listed in this table:

Provider	KUBERNETES_PROVIDER value	Type
Google Compute Engine	`gce`	Public cloud
Google Container Engine	`gke`	Public cloud
Amazon Web Services	`aws`	Public cloud
Microsoft Azure	`azure`	Public cloud
Hashicorp Vagrant	`vagrant`	Virtual development environment
VMware vSphere	`vsphere`	Private cloud/on-premise virtualization
Libvirt running CoreOS	`libvirt-coreos`	Virtualization management tool
Canonical Juju (folks behind Ubuntu)	`juju`	OS service orchestration tool

Kubernetes providers

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