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title: Running Kubernetes on Alibaba Cloud
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## Alibaba Cloud Container Service

The [Alibaba Cloud Container Service](https://www.aliyun.com/product/containerservice) lets you run and manage Docker applications on a cluster of Alibaba Cloud ECS instances. It supports the popular open source container orchestrators: Docker Swarm and Kubernetes.

To simplify cluster deployment and management, use [Kubernetes Suppport for Alibaba Cloud Container Service](https://www.aliyun.com/solution/kubernetes/). You can get started quickly by following the [Kubernetes walk-through](https://help.aliyun.com/document_detail/53751.html), and there are some [tutorials for Kubernetes Support on Alibaba Cloud](https://yq.aliyun.com/teams/11/type_blog-cid_200-page_1) in Chinese. 

To use custom binaries or open source Kubernetes, follow the instructions below.

## Custom Deployments

The source code for [Kubernetes with Alibaba Cloud provider implmenetation](https://github.com/AliyunContainerService/kubernetes) is open source and available on GitHub.

For more information, see "[Quick deployment of Kubernetes - VPC environment on Alibaba Cloud](https://www.alibabacloud.com/forum/read-830)" in English and [Chinese](https://yq.aliyun.com/articles/66474).