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Google Cloud Run

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What is Google Cloud Run?

Google Cloud Run is a fully-managed compute platform used to run code in a container directly on top of Google's scalable infrastructure. It is designed to make developers more productive by allowing them to focus only on writing code using a favorite language, while Cloud Run takes care of operating the service. It includes 2 million requests free per month.

Any language, any library, any binary

Developers can write code using any language, framework, and libraries, package it up as a container, run "gcloud run deploy", and the app will be live—provided with everything it needs to run in production. Building a container is completely optional. Developers using Go, Node.js, Python, Java, .NET Core, or Ruby, can use the source-based deployment option that builds the container using the best practices for the language in use.


Fast autoscaling

Whether for event-driven, long running services or containerized jobs to process data, Cloud Run automatically scales containers up and down from zero. This means users only pay when their code is running.


Automatically build container images from your source

Cloud Run can also automate how you get to production, using buildpacks to enable you to deploy directly from source—without having to install Docker on your machine. You can automate your builds and deploy your code whenever new commits are pushed to a given branch of a Git repository.


Run scheduled jobs to completion

Cloud Run jobs allow you to perform batch processing, with instances running in parallel. Execute run-to-completion jobs that do not respond to HTTP requests—all on a serverless platform. Let your jobs run for up to 24 hours!


Direct VPC connectivity

Send traffic to a VPC network directly and connect with all the services you have running on the VPC.

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FAQs

What is Google Cloud Run?
Google Cloud Run enables users to build and deploy scalable containerized apps written in any language (including Go, Python, Java, Node.js, .NET, and Ruby) on a fully managed platform. Cloud Run can be paired with other container ecosystem tools, including Google's Cloud Build, Cloud Code, Artifact Registry, and Docker. And it features out-of-the-box integration with Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Logging, Cloud Trace, and Error Reporting to ensure the health of an application.
What are Google Cloud Run's top competitors?
Red Hat OpenShift, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), and Kubernetes are common alternatives for Google Cloud Run.
What is Google Cloud Run's best feature?
Reviewers rate Security and Isolation highest, with a score of 8.5.