I wonder how they are doing this from a security standpoint. For customer workload isolation is every container actually a VM? The pricing/sizing kind of makes it look like that.
> App Platform provides predictable, easy-to-understand pricing
How? Outbound network is charged per-GB. I know autoscaling isn't supported yet, but hopefully they support setting a max number of instances. One of the things people like about DigitalOcean over other cloud services is that you can sign up to pay $X per month and know that is what exactly what you will pay, no surprises.
> Upcoming features
The list of things not supported yet includes auto-scaling and VPC. It is hard to imagine using a PaaS without autoscaling. And I wouldn't want to build out a microservices-like architecture without VPC.
Overall I really like the concept of the offering. Simple PaaS, with custom container support, Kubernetes (for what it is worth in a PaaS, I don't know), and predictable pricing. That all sounds really good.