Google Cloud Run

Cloud Run is a serverless container hosting service. It's a great fit for Notely because it has a generous free tier, scales automatically, and automagically configures pesky infrastructure like:

Load balancing
DNS
HTTPS

In a nutshell, we give Cloud Run a Docker image, and it runs it for us.

Cloud Run Services

Cloud run has 2 types of applications:

Services
Jobs

A "service" is a Cloud Run application that listens and responds to web requests, as opposed to a "job" which is simply a task that runs to completion.

Notely makes sense as a service because it's a web application that needs to respond to web requests. It needs to serve the frontend, and it needs to respond to API requests.

Assignment

For now, let's create a test service. Once we're comfortable with the process, we'll deploy Notely.

Navigate to the Cloud Run section of the GCP console.
Click "Deploy Container" and select "Service"
Select "Deploy one revision from an existing container image"
Container image URL: bootdotdev/getting-started
Service name: test
Region: us-central1
Under Authentication, choose "Allow public access". This will allow anyone to access the webpage the service serves without having to log in to GCP
Service scaling, set maximum number of instances to 4.
Ingress control: "All" checked (allow direct access to the service)
Go to "Container(s), Volumes, Networking, Security". Under "Container(s)" change the "Container port" from 8080 to 80.
Create the service
Wait for the service to deploy
Click the service's URL to see the webpage it serves

Run and submit the CLI tests and use the URL of your service (e.g. bootdev config base_url https://test-vo4kpyh36a-uc.a.run.app/).