This glossary defines the core concepts behind Marketplace to help build your mental model of how Marketplace work and understand what the documentation is referring to when it uses certain terminology.
1-Click apps allows you to create different DigitalOcean resources with pre-installed features and configurations, enabling you to get your application running quickly.
Add-Ons are a Software as a Service (SaaS) solution that allow you to add new features to your DigitalOcean resources and projects quickly without needing to go through typical software initialization and set up.
Platform as a Service (PaaS) is a type of cloud service that offers deployment platforms to build, deploy, and scale applications on a subscription basis.
Public clouds are servers accessed over the internet with public cloud services offered and hosted by a cloud service provider, such as DigitalOcean’s Droplets.
Software as a Service (SaaS) is a type of cloud service that offers software solutions as a product, hosted by the cloud service provider on a subscription basis.
Vendor Lock-In, proprietary lock-in, or customer lock-in, is a situation where the cost of switching from one cloud vendor to another is too high, resulting in users being “stuck” with their original vendor.