Cloud Provider [glossary]deterministic

A business or other organization that offers a cloud computing platform.

Cloud providers, sometimes called Cloud Service Providers (CSPs), offer cloud computing platforms or services.

Many cloud providers offer managed infrastructure (also called Infrastructure as a Service or IaaS). With managed infrastructure the cloud provider is responsible for servers, storage, and networking while you manage layers on top of that such as running a Kubernetes cluster.

You can also find Kubernetes as a managed service; sometimes called Platform as a Service, or PaaS. With managed Kubernetes, your cloud provider is responsible for the Kubernetes control plane as well as the [nodes](#gloss:node) and the infrastructure they rely on: networking, storage, and possibly other elements such as load balancers.