Overview

Managed Cloud Run is a highly efficient and scalable way to run stateless containers in Google Cloud. When combining it with other managed services such as the global load balancer and Google Cloud’s managed database services, whether Cloud SQL or Memory Store, Cloud Run deploys a scalable and very cost-effective architecture in minutes.

Figure 7.1 is a graphical representation of the architecture that we will provision. Traffic enters through a global load balancer. We configure the load balancer to serve static content, including the home page from Cloud Storage, but Cloud Run serves the dynamic content. The global load balancer is a layer 7 load balancer that supports path-based routing. That means we can configure it so that any URL with the /api prefix is directed to Cloud Run. Furthermore, we can configure the load balancer to dynamically map the URL to the name of the Cloud Run service. The URL with the /api/<service> prefix automatically maps to the...