Cloud Run is a managed compute platform that enables you to run containers that are invocable via requests or events. Cloud Run is serverless: it abstracts away all infrastructure management, so you can focus on what matters most — building great applications.

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Training and tutorials

Try Cloud Run tutorials, training courses, and Qwiklabs from Google Cloud.

Tutorial

Pub/Sub with Cloud Run

Learn how to write, deploy, and call a Cloud Run service from a Pub/Sub push subscription.

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Tutorial

Processing images from Cloud Storage tutorial

Use Cloud Run, Cloud Vision API, and ImageMagick to detect and blur offensive images uploaded to a Cloud Storage bucket.

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Securing Cloud Run services tutorial

Create a secure two-service application running on Cloud Run. This application is a Markdown editor which includes a public "frontend" service which anyone can use to compose markdown text, and a private "backend" service which renders Markdown text to HTML.

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Local troubleshooting of a Cloud Run service

Troubleshoot a broken Cloud Run service using Stackdriver tools for discovery and a local development workflow for investigation. This tutorial uses a sample project that results in runtime errors when deployed, which you troubleshoot to find and fix the problem.

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Qwiklabs

Hello Cloud Run

The goal of this lab is for you to build a container image and deploying it to Cloud Run. In this lab, you'll learn how to get started with Cloud Run by deploying and running a stateless container.

45 minutes introductory 5 credits

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Qwiklabs

Build a Resilient, Asynchronous System with Cloud Run and Pub/Sub

For the labs in the Google Cloud Run Serverless Quest, you will read through a fictitious business scenario in each lab and assist the characters in implementing a serverless solution.

1 hour introductory 7 credits

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Use cases

Explore use cases, reference architectures, whitepapers, best practices, and industry solutions.

Use case

Web services: REST APIs backend

Modern mobile apps commonly rely on RESTful backend APIs to provide current views of application data and separation for frontend and backend development teams. API services running on Cloud Run allow developers to persist data reliably on managed databases such as Cloud SQL or Firestore (NoSQL). Logging in to Cloud Run grants users access to app‐resource data stored in Cloud Databases.

Web services API Cloud SQL Firestore backend

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Use case

Web services: Back‐office administration

Back‐office administration often requires documents, spreadsheets, and other custom integrations, and running a vendor‐supplied web application. Hosting the containerized internal web application on Cloud Run means it is always ready and you are only billed when it is used.

Web services back office administration

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Use case

Data processing: Lightweight data transformation

Build Cloud Run data processing applications that transform lightweight data as it arrives and store it as structured data. Transformations can be triggered from Google Cloud sources. When a .csv file is created, an event is fired and delivered to a Cloud Run service. Data is then extracted, structured, and stored in a BigQuery table.

Web services data processing structured data transformations

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Use case

Automation: Scheduled document generation

Schedule a monthly job with Cloud Scheduler to generate invoices using a Cloud Run service. Because containers containing custom binaries can be deployed to Cloud Run, it is able to run in a PDF generation tool like LibreOffice in a serverless way, which means only paying when you are generating invoices.

Automation job scheduling

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Use case

Automation: Business workflow with webhooks

Connect your operations together with an event‐driven approach. Cloud Run scales on demand while implementing a webhook target, pushing events in the form of requests and only charging you when you receive and process the event. React to events from GitHub or Slack, or send webhooks when a purchase is made, a job is ready, or an alert is fired with a service that can react on a just‐in‐time basis to trigger a microservice in your infrastructure.

Automation business workflow webhooks events

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Architecture

Migrating Node.js apps from Heroku to Cloud Run

Learn how to migrate Node.js web apps that are running on Heroku to Cloud Run on Google Cloud. This tutorial is intended for architects and product owners who want to migrate their apps from Heroku to managed services on Google Cloud.

Node.js Migration

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Whitepaper

Modernization path for .NET applications on Google Cloud

This document looks at the common limitations of monolithic applications and describes a gradual yet structured process for modernizing them. This document is intended for cloud architects, system administrators, and CTOs who are familiar with Windows and the .NET ecosystem and want to learn more about what modernization involves.

.NET Modernization Migration

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Code samples

Dive into coding with examples that demonstrate how to use and connect Google Cloud services.

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Starting a Cloud Run project from a template

Start your app from a template within Intellij, including Flask, Django, Node.js, Java, and Go templates.

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Node.js samples

Includes HelloWorld, Pub/Sub, Cloud SQL examples, image processing, and many others.

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Python samples

Includes HelloWorld, Pub/Sub, and Cloud SQL examples

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Go samples

Includes HelloWorld, Pub/Sub, Cloud SQL examples, image processing, and many others.

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Java samples

Includes HelloWorld, Pub/Sub, Cloud SQL examples, image processing, and many others.

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C# HelloWorld

Knative sample that can be run on Cloud Run

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Videos