Programmatic Deploy on Cloud Run

Jaden Banson

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Sep 5, 2020, 8:16:26 PM9/5/20

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Is it possible to deploy a container (docker) on cloud run programmatically in code via an API, or is running bash commands w/ the gcloud SDK my only option?

alfio

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Sep 21, 2020, 3:21:32 PM9/21/20

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Hey Jaden,

This is entirely possible and all depends on your use case. You can deploy many different types of softwares on Google Compute Engine for example by using start-up scipts or the cloud-init library. I suggest consulting this documentation [1] if you are curious of the mutiple ways you can deploy containers on VM instances or Managed Instance Groups.

[1] https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/containers/deploying-containers

C Mos

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Oct 12, 2020, 9:53:26 AM10/12/20

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I can suggest these next two links:

Consider using Terraform or Google Deployment Manager[1]
Using Google Deployment Manager- discussion[2]

I would like to share that is totally fine to use gcloud CLI to deploy to GCR and it is recommended you create a service account to manage your deployments. For instance, this would work using GitlabCI which allows you to define and laydown your own CI/CD strategy. Another alternative is to use Github (or BitBucket) + Google Source Repository[3] + Google Cloud Build + Google Deployment Manager to manage your deployment programmatically and relying in Google Container Registry(GCR) to store your images. I suggest you investigate this alternative by creating a simple proof of concept to understand the deployment flow and to ensure DM is able to manage all the resources associated with your requirement.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/57760851/can-i-deploy-cloud-run-using-deployment-manager

[2] https://gist.github.com/dinvlad/fcf72039c403bc2bf46663fb43c62a57

[3] https://cloud.google.com/source-repositories/docs/mirroring-repositories

Jofre Riba Sanchez

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Oct 23, 2020, 10:11:10 AM10/23/20

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There is an API for Cloud Run: https://cloud.google.com/run/docs/reference/rest

The gcloud SDK is only an interface to connect to the GCP APIs. If you run any command with the flags `--verbosity=debug` and `--log-http`, you'll see each call the SDK is making.

You can make the calls manually, but it is non-trivial. Nevertheless, all the actions that can be taken in Cloud Run (including deployment), can be taken through the API.

You can try to deploy using the API directly from your browser: https://apis-explorer.appspot.com/apis-explorer/#p/run/v1/run.namespaces.services.create

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