The most common and widely known Public Environments are Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platforms.

Kubernetes (or K8s) is a Container Orchestration platform that has been developed to provide a platform to host Container based applications. It includes components for services, infrastructure, routing and security to help present container applications to end users.

Kubernetes uses a concept of an "Operator" which provides management and control capabilities as well as plugins for various existing infrastructure components such as storage platform drivers or public cloud integrations.

AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platforms, VMware by Broadcom, Red Hat, among others have their own offering based on a Kubernetes framework

Red Hat Openshift if Red Hat's Container Orchestration platform, compatible with a standard K8s architecture but including proprietary components to optimize storage, networking and control. It provides operators and managed drivers and components to provide an optimised experience

Openshift also supports hosting Virtual machines inside the Container platform architecture through Openshift Virtualization

VMware Cloud Foundation is a standard architecture for deploying a VMware Workload into a data center. This involves providing management components such as vCenter Server, SDDC Manager and Networking architecture to ensure a standard, well architected environment is delivered.

VMware Cloud Foundation includes options for Storage (VSAN), Networking (NSX), Hypervisor (ESXi) and management VMs.

Currently 5.2.x is the latest version of this and it is built on vSphere ESXi 8.x Hypervisor