Google Cloud Run Cheat Sheet

• Is a managed compute platform that enables you to run stateless HTTP containers that are invokable via web requests or Pub/Sub events.

Features

• Cloud Run is serverless which means it abstracts away all the infrastructure management and maintenance so you can focus more on building your application.
• In Cloud Run, your application must be run in containers that contain everything that your software needs to run including code, runtime, and system libraries.
• It automatically scales up or down from zero to N depending on traffic.
• GPU support: Run AI inference workloads with on-demand NVIDIA L4 GPUs. GPU instances start in under 5 seconds and can scale down to zero.
• Source-based deployment: Deploy directly from source code using Buildpacks without installing Docker (Go, Node.js, Python, Java, .NET Core, Ruby).
• Cloud Run jobs: Run batch processes or “run-to-completion” workloads for up to 24 hours, with multiple instances running in parallel.
• Direct VPC connection: Send traffic directly to your VPC network and connect to services running on your VPC.
• It is a regional service and is automatically replicated across multiple zones.

Cloud Run for Anthos (Knative serving)

• Cloud Run for Anthos abstracts complex Kubernetes concepts to allow developers to leverage the benefits of Kubernetes and serverless together. It provides access to custom machine types, additional networking support, and Cloud Accelerators.

What images you can deploy

Cloud Run

You can deploy container images stored in Container Registry or Artifact Registry. The following are the types of container images that can be deployed on Cloud Run:

• Container images stored in Artifact Registry or Container Registry.
• Images from other Google Cloud projects (with proper IAM permissions).
• Public container images from Artifact Registry and Container Registry.

Cloud Run for Anthos

• You can use container images stored from any container registry, like Dockerhub.

Pricing

• You can use the Google Cloud Platform Pricing Calculator to estimate the cost of using Cloud Run.
• Cloud Run (fully managed) charges you only for the resources you use, rounded up to the nearest 100 milliseconds.
• Pricing (pay-as-you-go with always free tier, billed in 100ms increments):
  • CPU: $0.00001800 per vCPU-second (first 240,000 vCPU-seconds per month free)
  • Memory: $0.00000200 per GiB-second (first 450,000 GiB-seconds per month free)
  • You only pay for resources used during request processing. No charges when scaled to zero.
• Cloud Run for Anthos on Google Cloud is an add-on for Google Kubernetes Engine. Workloads running in a cluster are included in Google Kubernetes Engine pricing.

Google Cloud Run Cheat Sheet References:

https://cloud.google.com/run
https://cloud.google.com/run/docs
https://cloud.google.com/kuberun/docs