Chapter 9: Containers as a Service (CaaS) and Serverless Computing for Containers

In the last three chapters, we have covered immutable infrastructure, configuration as code, and infrastructure as code and how to use Packer, Ansible, and Terraform to create one. These chapters introduced you to the era of modern DevOps, where everything is automated. We follow the same principles for building and deploying all kinds of infrastructure, be it containers or virtual machines.

Now, let's get back to the container world and look at other ways of automating and managing container deployments – Containers as a Service (CaaS) and Serverless computing for containers. CaaS provides container-based virtualization that abstracts away all management behind the scenes and helps you manage your containers, without worrying about the underlying infrastructure and orchestration. For simple deployments and less complex applications, CaaS can be a savior. Serverless computing is a broad...