Cloud Run

Cloud Run is a fully-managed compute environment for deploying and scaling serverless HTTP containers without worrying about provisioning machines, configuring clusters, or autoscaling.

Benefits of Cloud Run

• No vendor lock-in - Because Cloud Run takes standard OCI containers and implements the standard Knative Serving API, you can easily port over your applications to on-premises or any other cloud environment.

• Fast autoscaling - Microservices deployed in Cloud Run scale automatically based on the number of incoming requests, without you having to configure or manage a full-fledged Kubernetes cluster. Cloud Run scales to zero— that is, uses no resources—if there are no requests.

• Split traffic - Cloud Run enables you to split traffic between multiple revisions, so you can perform gradual rollout such as canary deployments or blue/green deployments.

• Custom domains - You can set up custom domain mapping in Cloud Run and it will provision a TLS certificate for your domain.

• Automatic redundancy - Cloud Run offers automatic redundancy so you don’t have to worry about creating multiple instances for high availability

The following is an example of a microservices architecture using Cloud Run and several GCP services:

Learn

• Cloud Run documentation

• Hello Cloud Run with Python codelab

• Deploy a website with Cloud Run codelab