Google Cloud Run in Practice: The Complete Guide for Developers and Engineers

"Google Cloud Run in Practice"

"Google Cloud Run in Practice" is an exhaustive, hands-on guide to architecting, deploying, and scaling modern serverless applications on Google Cloud Run. Moving from core architectural concepts through advanced deployment strategies, this book meticulously charts every aspect of Cloud Run—stateless execution, container lifecycle, autoscaling, orchestration, and security. Readers are equipped to differentiate Cloud Run from other compute services, optimize workloads for cost and performance, and leverage seamless integration with GCP networking, service discovery, and event-driven architectures.

Emphasizing real-world patterns, the book delves into effective containerization, automated CI/CD pipelines, versioning, traffic management, Canary releases, and secure configuration of networks and secrets. Practical chapters guide readers through identity and access management, regulatory compliance, private/public routing, and advanced observability using monitoring, distributed traces, and automated error budgets. Integration with event sources, API gateways, Cloud Pub/Sub, and workflow orchestration unlocks powerful approaches to background jobs, data pipelines, and machine learning inference.

Filled with production-tested solutions, "Google Cloud Run in Practice" explores operational excellence with cost optimization, lifecycle management, failure injection, high availability, and governance at scale. Whether deploying microservices or building complex, multi-tenant platforms, this book delivers expert guidance, actionable checklists, and community-sourced best practices—empowering teams to fully harness the agility and resilience of Cloud Run in enterprise environments.

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Release date

Ebook: 19 August 2025