Find articles to guide you to use the PAAS cloud offerings available. This includes services like cloud run, aws lambda, azure containers and so many other such services.

Platform as a service

Before we talk about cloud run, it's important you know what a platform as a service offering is and how serveless platforms work. You can skip this section if you already know what they are.

) in simple terms is offering is a cloud service that eliminates the need to manage servers and configurations. The cloud platform takes care of all the management that could come with having to configure your 

 on a server. You get to use the command line or your cloud console to configure a PAAS service and your cloud provider takes care of making sure the application stays up and running.

 is any technology that allows you to run a job or application without the need for server management and you get to pay for only what you use, for instance the number of times users visit your site or the processing power and time required to complete a long running job. It's essentially a PAAS offering that allows you to pay for only what you use.

Cloud Run is a managed compute platform that lets you run containers directly on top of Google's scalable infrastructure.

It's in simple terms a serveless offering from Google Cloud that allows you to run your application as containers.

With cloud run, you get to run your application with containers on google cloud and pay for only resources (CPU, memory and user requests or visits) you use. 

You specify your container image, the memory and CPU your service requires, and cloud run bills you according to the number of requests or visits from your users, the processing time and memory usage during the request. The CPU and memory size affects your cost in the end, the higher CPU and memory your service uses, the higher the cost per request. You can use the 

 to first find out an estimated cost of running your service. You can also look at the 

 for more details as there are some nuances and you might not get a one-one mapping of 1 request = $0.20 (this is not the actual charge, it's just an example) but networking costs might also be needed to take into consideration.

Pay for only what you use (number of requests or user visits)

Free first 180,000 vCPU-seconds per month

Free first 360,000 GiB-seconds free per month (GiB seconds is the memory usage per second in GB, example 1 GB per second when using 512MB memory is 2 * 512 = 2 seconds)

Allows you to assign a custom domain name to your application

No management of application IP address required, GCP will give you an initial domain name based on your service and it will use a random public IP address from it's pool of IP addresses to make your service available on the internet. In short, you don't need to manage IP addresses.

Cloud run is a platform as a service offering by Google Cloud that allows you to run container images and pay per requests sent to your application.

What is cloud run?