In this chapter, we discussed Cloud Run at a high level and introduced the constituent components that make all of this a reality. Just like Google's other serverless products, Cloud Run scales to zero, except here, the deployment artifact is now a container. Utilizing a container artifact provides additional benefits as Cloud Run can be deployed with Kubernetes or without it. In addition, any language runtime can be used, making for a very flexible product.
Familiarity with container environments (for example, Docker) is a real advantage here, but Cloud Run removes much of the complexity of deploying code. Once the container has been successfully built, it can be deployed. Support for serverless request/response messages is inherent in Cloud Run, so there is always a simple and consistent method for developing components. For those of you who weren't previously...
