Deploying Applications to Google Cloud Run

Choosing a platform

We might also need to choose the platform. As we’ve already mentioned, Cloud Run is based on Knative, which can run on any Kubernetes cluster. Similarly, GCloud allows us to deploy serverless applications almost anywhere. We can choose between managed, gke, and kubernetes. The managed platform is Cloud Run, which we’re exploring right now.

Finally, we’ll have to specify the Google Cloud project in which we’ll run the application.

Note: We could specify quite a few other things. But we’ll let you explore them on your own after you finish with this section, if you still feel that Google Cloud Run might be the right solution for some of your use cases.

Deploying the application

With all that in mind, here is the command we’ll execute.