Chapter 10
Standing on Platform as a Service
IN THIS CHAPTER
Getting to know PaaS
Managing the DevOps life cycle
Evaluating the role of the data center
Finding out how the public cloud fits and when the private cloud shines
It makes sense that IaaS was the first offering for hosting applications in the cloud as it was a direct replacement for the hardware servers that had been hosting applications. The evolution from IaaS to Platform as a Service (PaaS) was a step that developers recognized quickly. After all, developers had been responsible for adapting their applications to different operating systems from time immemorial, and the ability to deploy applications without worrying about the differences between operating systems was an enormous breakthrough. By hiding the underlying operating system in a PaaS virtual machine and providing general services to replace operating system services, developers could focus on the business logic of their applications.
In this chapter, we discuss the value of the Platform as a Service model and its ability to make software development easier ...
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