GCP Cloud Run Skill | Agent Skills

GCP Cloud Run

Overview
When to Use
Quick Start
Reference Guides
Best Practices

Overview

Google Cloud Run enables deployment of containerized applications at scale without managing infrastructure. Run stateless HTTP containers with automatic scaling from zero to thousands of instances, paying only for compute time consumed.

When to Use

Microservices and APIs
Web applications and backends
Batch processing jobs
Long-running background workers
CI/CD pipeline integration
Data processing pipelines
WebSocket applications
Multi-language services

Quick Start

Minimal working example:

# Build container image
gcloud builds submit --tag gcr.io/MY_PROJECT_ID/my-app:latest

# Deploy to Cloud Run
gcloud run deploy my-app \
  --image gcr.io/MY_PROJECT_ID/my-app:latest \
  --platform managed \
  --region us-central1 \
  --memory 512Mi \
  --cpu 1 \
  --timeout 3600 \
  --max-instances 100 \
  --min-instances 1 \
  --no-allow-unauthenticated \
  --set-env-vars NODE_ENV=production,DATABASE_URL=postgresql://...

# Allow public access
gcloud run services add-iam-policy-binding my-app \
  --platform managed \
  --region us-central1 \
  --member=allUsers \
  --role=roles/run.invoker

# Get service URL
gcloud run services describe my-app \
// ... (see reference guides for full implementation)

Reference Guides

Detailed implementations in the references/ directory:

| Guide | Contents | |---|---| | Cloud Run Deployment with gcloud CLI | Cloud Run Deployment with gcloud CLI | | Containerized Application (Node.js) | Containerized Application (Node.js) | | Terraform Cloud Run Configuration | Terraform Cloud Run Configuration | | Docker Build and Push | Docker Build and Push |

Best Practices

✅ DO

Use container health checks
Set appropriate CPU and memory
Implement graceful shutdown
Use service accounts with least privilege
Monitor with Cloud Logging
Enable Cloud Armor for protection
Use revision management for blue-green deployments
Implement startup and liveness probes

❌ DON'T

Store secrets in code
Use default service account
Create stateful applications
Ignore health checks
Deploy without testing
Use excessive resource limits
Store files in container filesystem

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