From ccf51243f7eafa7fa4e453ecf2d3ebeadc113a56 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: nimbcode <36571783+nimbcode@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2018 16:56:09 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Adding glossary item for Cloud Providers (#7615)

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 _data/glossary/cloud-provider.yaml | 10 ++++++++++
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+id: cloud-provider
+name: Cloud Provider
+full-link: /docs/concepts/cluster-administration/cloud-providers
+tags:
+- community
+short-description: >
+  Cloud provider is a company that offers cloud computing platform that can run Kubernetes clusters.
+long-description: >
+  Cloud providers or sometime called Cloud Service Provider (CSPs) provides cloud computing platforms.  They may offer services such as Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) or Platform as a Service (PaaS).  Cloud providers host the Kubernetes cluster and also provide services that interact with the cluster, such as Load Balancers, Storage Classes etc. 
+