Cloud Run Services & Jobs

Cloud Run offers two distinct workload types: services for handling HTTP requests and events, and jobs for running containers to completion. Understanding when and how to use each is essential for building effective serverless architectures on Google Cloud.

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Cloud Run Services in Depth

A Cloud Run service is a long-running process that listens on a network port and responds to incoming HTTP requests. Each service gets a stable HTTPS URL, automatic TLS certificate management, and built-in load balancing.

Revisions

Every time you deploy a new container image or change a configuration parameter (environment variables, memory, CPU, concurrency), Cloud Run creates a new revision. Revisions are immutable snapshots of your service configuration.

Concept	Description
Revision	An immutable snapshot of the service's container image and configuration
Traffic splitting	Route percentages of traffic to different revisions
Rollback	Route 100% of traffic back to a previous revision

# Deploy a new revision
gcloud run deploy my-service \
  --image europe-west2-docker.pkg.dev/my-project/repo/app:v2 \
  --region europe-west2