To CaaS or Not to CaaS?

Compare the favorable functionalities of CaaS among Google, AWS, and Azure.

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Should we use managed Containers as a Service? That must be the most crucial question we should try to answer. Unfortunately, it’s hard to provide a universal answer since the solutions differ significantly from one provider to another. Currently (July 2020), CaaS can be described as a Wild West, with solutions ranging from amazing to useless.

Before we attempt to answer this big question, let’s go through some of the things we learned by exploring Google Cloud Run, AWS ECS with Fargate, and Azure Container Instances.

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Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) Clusters with Terraform

AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) Clusters with Terraform

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Clusters with Terraform

Packaging, Deploying, and Managing Applications

Using Helm as a Package Manager for Kubernetes

Hands-On: Using Helm as a Package Manager for Kubernetes on AWS

Exploring Serverless Computing

Using Managed Functions as a Service(FaaS)

Hands On: Using Managed Functions as a Service(FaaS) on AWS

Serverless as the Future

Using Managed Containers as a Service(CaaS)

Hands On: Using Managed Containers as a Service(CaaS) on AWS

Using Self-Managed Containers as a Service (CaaS)

Hands-On: Using Self-Managed Containers As A Service on AWS

Using Centralized Logging

Hands-On: Using Centralised Logging

Deploying Applications Using GitOps Principles

Hands-On: Deploying Applications Using GitOps Principles

Applying Progressive Delivery

Hands-On: Applying Progressive Delivery

Conclusion

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To CaaS or Not to CaaS?

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