Introduction to Cloud Run

Serverless container workloads.

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In the last lesson, we had a complete review of GKE. But, if you are a developer and don’t want to get your hands dirty with complex cluster management for your containerized workloads, then Cloud Run is for you.

Introduction

Cloud Run allows us to run stateless containers in a serverless manner. Cloud Run supports event-based invocation of containers. Also, the service deployed to cloud run can also be accessed in other cloud platforms. We have 2 options to run a containerized workload in Cloud Run.

  1. Application container running on a cluster totally managed by Google Cloud.

  2. Application container running on a cluster created by us.

Cloud Run is backed by Knative. Knative is an extension of the Kubernetes and because of ...