- ● Manual
- ○ Kubernetes the Hard Way (kubernetes-the-hard-way)
- ● Config management (Cloud Formation) Automating Manual method
- ● Containerized
- ○ Rancher, Deis, etc.
- ● Self-Hosted Kubernetes
Self-Hosted Kubernetes: The idea is that once you bring up a single machine running a Kubelet you can bootstrap the other services that make up a Kubernetes cluster from there. You can learn more about that here: https://coreos.com/blog/self-hosted-kubernetes.html
KOPS looks to be self-hosted, but not sure.
This is just a picture of this link from June 27, 2017
Here's a pie chart of the self-reported survey results from sig-aws (as of Aug. 8th, 2017):

using results of 56 of the respondents.