Part-40: Google Serverless Cloud Run Services and Jobs

Google Cloud Run

• Cloud Run is a Serverless Container Platform
• Fully managed Compute Platform

Used to run containers directly
NO manual infrastructure management required.
NO visibility to underlying vm instances

• Any language, any library, any binary supported to run on Cloud Run
• Fully Integrated with other Google cloud services to build featured
• applications (Cloud SQL, Cloud Build, Cloud Logging, Cloud Monitoring,
• Firebase, Cloud Load Balancing, Cloud Memory Store, Secret Manager, VPC
• Private Networking, Cloud Tasks)

We can run code on Cloud Run in two ways

Cloud Run Services:

• Deploy/Run code that responds to web requests or events
• When to use

Websites and Web Applications
APIS and Microservices (supports HTTP and gRPC protocols)
Streaming data (Receive events from Eventarc or messages from Pub/Sub Subscriptions)

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Cloud Run Jobs:

• Deploy/Run code that performs work (a job) and quits when the work is done
• In short, our container will execute job and runs to completion.
• When to use: Database migrations, scheduled jobs, parallel processing of tasks