Cloud Run Basics

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name: cloud-run-basics
description: >-
  Manages Cloud Run services, jobs, and worker pools. Use when you need to deploy applications
  responding to HTTP requests (services), run event-triggered or scheduled tasks (jobs),
  or handle always-on pull-based background processing (worker pools).
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# Cloud Run Basics

Cloud Run is a fully managed application platform for running your code,
function, or container on top of Google's highly scalable infrastructure. It
abstracts away infrastructure management, providing three primary resource
types:

1.  **Services:** Responds to HTTP requests sent to a unique and stable
    endpoint, using stateless instances that autoscale based on a variety of key
    metrics, also responds to events and functions.
2.  **Jobs:** Executes parallelizable tasks that are executed manually, or on a
    schedule, and run to completion.
3.  **Worker pools:** Handles always-on background workloads such as pull-based
    workloads, for example, Kafka consumers, Pub/Sub pull queues, or RabbitMQ
    consumers.

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