Getting Started with Google Cloud Run
Get an overview of Google Cloud Run.
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Google Cloud Run is a fully managed compute platform for deploying and scaling containerized applications quickly and securely.
Since it uses container images, we can write code in any language we want. We can use any application server and any dependencies. Long story short, if an application and everything it needs can be packaged into a container image, it can be deployed to Google Cloud Run. The service abstracts infrastructure management, allowing us to focus on our applications and the business value we’re trying to create. It provides automated scaling and redundancy, which results in high availability. It has integrated logging, monitoring, and strict isolation. The pricing is based on pay-per-use.
The best part of Google Cloud Run is that it’s based on Knative. It’s an open-source project that aims to become a standard for running serverless applications in Kubernetes. As a result, using Google Cloud Run simplifies accomplishing objectives. It’s a service on top of an open standard and is open source. Because of all this, we might not get locked into the service nearly as much as we might with other managed serverless solutions, especially FaaS.
Knative has a large community and is backed by some of the important software companies, such as Google, VMware, RedHat, and IBM. A large community and the support of ...