Introduction

There is a plethora of services available on the cloud and PaaS is one of them.

Chapter walkthrough#

This chapter introduces PaaS (Platform as a Service) as a runtime environment for microservices.

The text answers the following questions:

• What is a PaaS and how does it differ from other runtime environments?

• Why is a PaaS suited for microservices?

As a concrete example for a PaaS, the chapter introduces the use of Cloud Foundry.

In the next lesson, we’ll look at a definition of PaaS.