Docker for Rails Developers

CaaS Platforms

Now that we’ve had a brief overview of our options if we choose to build on top of IaaS, let’s turn our attention to the Container as a Service (CaaS) space.

As we’ve already discussed, CaaS offerings let you hit the ground running faster. They provide a managed service, where your starting point is a platform capable of running Dockerized applications.

In this area, Kubernetes is king. It is the predominant orchestration service offered by providers. This means that, once your Kubernetes workload cluster is up and running, you interact with it via the kubectl command to deploy, update, or scale your app. Similarly, your config manifests that describe the services you want running and how they should be connected will need to ...