Item: Google Cloud Run
Rating: 10
Author: Verified User

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Google Cloud Run for our dockerized Node.js-based GraphQL backend. It's perfect for horizontal scaling in a straightforward way and facilitating branch deployments via its revisions.

Pros and Cons

Horizontal scaling
Great CLI and CircleCI orb
Traffic management via revisions

Cloud Run doesn't allow you to redeploy an already existing revision which can be inconvenient in some use cases
Tricky to get the deployment working to start but once it's working that's great
The actual deployment is not the fastest but it's not too bad

Return on Investment

Cloud Run is very cheap when it comes to putting unused revisions to sleep and running it in general is pretty reasonable

Alternatives Considered

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

Cloud Run is just so much easier and straightforward to work with than EC2 when it comes to getting a Docker image up and running and serving requests.

Other Software Used

Google Cloud SQL, Vercel, Netlify Platform, Google Cloud Storage

If you have a standard backend that needs to serve frontend requests or requests from other clients and it can be in wrapped in a Docker image, it's pretty perfect. The auto scaling works excellently and supports branch deployment and other deployment strategies really well.

Excellent backend hosting

Overall Satisfaction with Google Cloud Run

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Pros and Cons

Return on Investment

Alternatives Considered

Key Insights

Do you think Google Cloud Run delivers good value for the price?

Are you happy with Google Cloud Run's feature set?

Did Google Cloud Run live up to sales and marketing promises?

Did implementation of Google Cloud Run go as expected?

Would you buy Google Cloud Run again?

Other Software Used

Likelihood to Recommend

Google Cloud Run Feature Ratings