Docker for Rails Developers

IaaS vs. CaaS

Now that we have a better understanding of where container orchestrators fit in, there’s still a choice to be made if you’re considering deploying containers to the cloud. You can either manage things at the infrastructure level and set up the orchestrator yourself, or you can use a container platform that handles the underlying infrastructure and provides a preinstalled orchestrator ready for you to deploy and scale your containers.

The former—known as Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) platforms—are bare-bones offerings. They give you all the low-level building blocks to create the environment for your applications to run. As you would expect, this gives you the most flexibility and customization in terms of tailoring your environment ...