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Introduction

You can run your containers on Google Cloud Run without managing the underlying infrastructure (you don’t need to apply security patches to servers). Cloud Run is really fun and I just wish they supported GPUs (oh wow!).

Getting started with Cloud Run

To get started, build and deploy a Docker container.

1. In a local directory, create a Dockerfile.

   FROM caddy
   ENTRYPOINT ["sh", "-c", "caddy respond --listen=0.0.0.0:${PORT:-8080} --body=\"hello world\n\""]

2. Build your image.

   gcloud builds submit --project=$PROJECT --tag=gcr.io/$PROJECT/hello-world

3. Deploy your container.

   gcloud run deploy hello-world --image=gcr.io/$PROJECT/hello-world --region=us-west1 --no-allow-unauthenticated

   Note: gcloud will print your app URL.

4. Reach your running container; for example:

   $ curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $(gcloud auth print-identity-token)" https://hello-world-231362033799.us-west1.run.app
   hello world

Discussion

You can quickly deploy your containers to Cloud Run without managing the underlying servers. The only limiting factor is you can’t run GPU workloads (oh wow!).

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