Chapter 7: Deploying Cloud-Native Workloads with Cloud Run

In the previous chapter, we took a deep dive into Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), which provides Kubernetes as a Service. In this chapter, we will look at the Cloud Run offering. Google Cloud Run allows us to run containerized workloads on a fully managed serverless platform. It brings the experience you get from GKE one level up by simplifying the process of developing and deploying applications. The service is based on the open source Knative (https://knative.dev/docs/serving) project, so Cloud Run workloads can be ported to any platform that runs Kubernetes. With Cloud Run, you get full integration with Google Cloud services such as Cloud IAM, Cloud Build, and Google Cloud's operations suite. All you have to do is build your application in one of your favorite languages. Once you've done this, you can deploy it to Cloud Run in seconds. The service will take care of scaling and keeping the application live. You...