Full PaaS deployment
If you have only PaaS Agents in your Frends, then you are having a full PaaS deployment. PaaS Agents are virtual machines hosted by the Frends team, so you don't have to worry about monitoring the Agents since the Frends team will make sure that the Agents are running as expected.
There are no prerequisites for having a full PaaS deployment since the Frends team will handle the installation of PaaS Agents. All you have to do is contact your dedicated service manager or support@frends.com to order a new PaaS Agent. You need to provide information about which Agent Group the Agent should be deployed to, in which Environment the Agent Group should be, should the Agent be a Legacy Agent or Cross-Platform Agent and if the Agent should have a static IP address or not. A static IP address should be requested if you want to give the Agent access to, for example, a database which is behind a firewall. An Environment and Agent Group will be created if they do not exist already.
Full PaaS deployment moves the responsibility of Agents from you to the Frends team, so you don't have to worry about monitoring the Agents or keeping them running and up to date. If there are any issues with the Agents, the Frends team will resolve the issues. This way you can focus on integration development without having to worry about the operation of Agents.
While having a full PaaS deployment you don't have to worry about Agents, but at the same time you lose control over your Agents, and it might create some restrictions to your integrations. For example, you cannot install tools to PaaS Agents, so you cannot run integrations requiring some tools. You also have to make sure that it is okay to handle data in PaaS Agents, since sometimes there are restrictions regarding data processing. If you want to save or fetch files to and from the Agents, you need to send or retrieve those files from for example an SFTP-server.
A use case for having a full PaaS deployment is that you don't want to take responsibility over the Agents, and you want to focus on your integrations. You have also verified that there aren't any restrictions which would prevent usage of PaaS Agents.
The next article is Introduction to Full Self-Hosted Deployment