Google Cloud Run
Google Cloud Run is a serverless container app service. You can deploy containerised apps to the cloud, which will autoscale horizontally with minimal configuration. It is an alternative to Kubernetes, but you only pay for usage. You do not pay for server uptime when there is no server usage. Why Containers? Containers give your app portability. Docker container deployment means that if your app runs on a Linux Docker container, your app will run just about anywhere in the cloud, on-prem or on a well-speced computer. Containers decouple your app from the Cloud Host. A container is a runtime instance of a docker image. A Docker container consists of A Docker image An execution environment A standard set of instructions The concept is borrowed from shipping containers, which define a standard to ship goods globally. Docker defines a standard to ship software. https://docs.docker.com/glossary/#container For example,...
Christian Findlay
Jul 26, 2022
