Containers as a Service (CaaS)
A Containers as a Service (CaaS) is a cloud service model that provides Container Orchestration, Container Runtime, and Container Image Registry services.
- AKA: Cloud-based Container Orchestration Platform.
- Context:
- It can (typically) be used to manage Containers and deploy Containerized Applications.
- It can be offered as a public cloud service or can be used in on-premises data centers.
- It can be considered to be a subset of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), where the fundamental resource is the container.
- It can (often) incorporate Orchestration Features, such as automated deployment, automated scaling, and management of containerized applications.
- It can aim to provide simplicity, speed, and flexibility of containers with the abstraction and security of virtual machines.
- It can range from being a Managed Kubernetes Service to being a Serverless Container Platforms.
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- Example(s):
- Managed Kubernetes Services, such as:
- Serverless Container Platforms, such as:
- other platforms, such as:
- Counter-Example(s):
- See: Cloud Computing, Container Orchestration, Containerization, Virtualization, Microservices.
References
2022
- (Techopedia, 2022) ⇒ https://www.techopedia.com/definition/32063/containers-as-a-service-caas Retrieved:2022-4-28.
- Containers as a service (CaaS) is a category of cloud computing services that allows customers to manage and deploy containers, applications and clusters through container-based virtualization. CaaS provides orchestration services which automates key IT functions. Examples of CaaS orchestration platforms are Google Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, Rackspace Carina and Apache Mesos. Some public cloud CaaS providers include Google, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Rackspace and IBM.