So far in this book, we have discussed many things relating to building serverless technologies in the cloud. In this chapter, we'll look at the latest offering from Google, which provides a stateless environment for your applications. Unlike Cloud Functions, Cloud Run explicitly utilizes container technology to provide a constrained environment for HTTP endpoints. Cloud Functions, on the other hand, provides an opinionated view of serverless workloads, for example, runtime language limitations. Cloud Run removes many of those restrictions in order to meet developers where they are. If you follow these things carefully, you will know that containers and Kubernetes are both the top skills any cloud professional can have.
To commence our discussion, we will outline the Cloud Run component architecture. In doing so, we will discuss several topics in order...
