How to Decide What’s Right for Me?
Explore the trade-offs involved in selecting a production environment for Dockerized Rails applications. Understand factors like upfront versus long-term cost, control, support needs, developer resources, regional hosting, and vendor lock-in to make informed deployment decisions suited to your team's skills and business goals.
When it comes to choosing your production environment, there is no right answer; one size does not fit all. Rather than giving you recommendations to choose a particular production environment, we will highlight some key criteria that you can use to choose one over the other.
Trade-offs to think about
Here are the trade-offs you need to think about:
Upfront cost vs. long-term cost
The unit cost for services generally increases with the amount they manage for you; IaaS is typically cheaper than CaaS, which is cheaper than Serverless.
However, the less managed, the more upfront engineering effort is required. It is often larger, ...