Containers as a Service (CaaS) and Serverless Computing for Containers

In the last two chapters, we covered Kubernetes and how it helps manage your containers seamlessly. Now, let’s 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 term that encompasses applications that can be run without us having to worry about the infrastructure behind the scenes. It has an additional benefit that you can focus purely on the application. We will discuss CaaS technologies such as Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) with Amazon Web Services Fargate (AWS Fargate) in detail...