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Cloud Run Button: Click-to-deploy your Git repos to GCP
- leetrout 7y agoThat is fascinating. It's one of those "feels so obvious" type of things. I wonder how hard it will be to track versions of things? I guess the "safest" workflow would be to fork the repo before you click run but the article doesn't say how to handles repeat clicks... multiple environments or if it prompts you? Off to test!
- leetrout 7y agoTo save anyone else some time if they stumble across my comment... It creates multiple revisions, even from distinct forks, based on what appears to be the repo name (cloud-run-hello). First run from a fork: This created the revision "cloud-run-hello-00001" of the Cloud Run service "cloud-run-hello"... After changing the button's HTML to point to my repo on my fork: This created the revision "cloud-run-hello-00002" of the Cloud Run service "cloud-run-hello"...
- badrequest 7y agoCloud Run requires a deployed container image somewhere. That can be Docker Hub or GCR, but the image version is what it actually operates on.
- sansnomme 7y agoThey had this in Heroku for years, just that it wasn't cheap. https://elements.heroku.com/buttons https://elements.heroku.com/buttons
- mfer 7y agoHeroku has had this for years. I'm surprised others have not followed suite more often.
- grenoire 7y agoI also think Azure has preset deployments on their repos.
- nlawalker 7y agoThere are a couple of options for making a "deploy to Azure" button. Both rely on ARM templates (declarative, parameterized deployments powered by JSON files): 1. Follow the steps at https://deploy.azure.com https://deploy.azure.com. This one greases the wheels for linking from a GitHub repo README for code that can be deployed straight to an Azure web app - you can just link to the site and it gets the repo URL from the referer header and uses a premade template to deploy it. You can also provide your own templates with custom parameters. 2. Link to the Azure portal ARM template deployment wizard using a deeplink that preloads a template from a public URL. I've never seen any official documentation for this, but https://www.noelbundick.com/posts/deploying-arm-templates-from-a-url/ https://www.noelbundick.com/posts/deploying-arm-templates-fr... covers it.
- ThePadawan 7y agoJust last saturday, I tried to take an application which prominently featured a "Run on Heroku" button and test a bug locally. For the life of me, I could not figure out to go from the button-based(apparently automatically inferred by Heroku?) deployment to a local Procfile-based deployment. It was faster to rely on the alternatively provided Dockerfile to start a local deployment and hope that it was as up-to-date as the Heroku setup. I find the idea of one-click deployments really appealing, but Heroku's vendor-lock-in-based implementation really turned me off their service.
- michaelmior 7y agoAll of the Heroku button stuff is configured in an `app.json` file in the root of the repository. There's also still a Procfile used. The `app.json` just helps with the initial configuration such as environment variables that need to be set, scripts to run, etc.
- julvo 7y agoI love this. Would be cool if the cloud run button (i.e. the image in the readme) updates and shows whether it's running and some status info after it's started (maybe it does already, didn't try it yet)
- leetrout 7y agoI am a bit disappointed- I skipped the details and now that I've tried it hands-on I see that it is hardcoding the link to the repo in the button's HTML. So even after you fork it the button still point's to Google's repo. That makes sense, of course, but if that step were gone (maybe by checking referrer?) it would be a lot slicker!
- alpb 7y agoDisclaimer: co-author of the project. It's already on our list: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/cloud-run-button/issues/16 https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/cloud-run-button/issu... Ideally you'd just link to a URL like deploy.cloud.run and we'll figure out the rest from Referer.
- leetrout 7y agoAwesome! Thanks for the quick response on that!
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- galaxyLogic 7y agohttps://zeit.co/ https://zeit.co/
- slig 7y agoI'm about to launch a new website and would like to start using AWS or GCP. Between Fargate and Cloud Run, which one would you recommend? (It's a simple React + Django + Postgres + Redis project) Thanks!
- cameronbrown 7y agoI personally make heavy use of classic App Engine tbh, the experience is pretty similar to Cloud Run but it's much more of a mature platform (if you can deal with the downsides).
- slig 7y agoI used App Engine years ago, but didn't even consider it nowadays exactly because it's mature and I fear Google might sunset it soon. Will have a look now, thanks!
- evankanderson 7y agoApp Engine is still GA and is still having features added. Disclaimer: I work on both Cloud Run and App Engine at Google.
- ernsheong 7y agoAgain false perception issues, GCP is not Google consumer product. GCP rarely sunsets products already in GA (for now).
- ZeroCool2u 7y agoAppEngine is great! Plus, I just finished making an auto deploy to AppEngine Workflow with GitHub Actions last night, so I can just push and auto deploy if all tests pass!
- samblr 7y agoIf its open source - could you please point it.
- ehPReth 7y agoi want to love all these cloud run app engine cloud function type things (and amazon type equals), but it seems like stuff takes like 30 years to start up if it hasn’t been touched for a little bit even for super simple functions... is this stuff just near unusable unless you’re patient or like super baller with billions of hits per second?
- evankanderson 7y agoIt depends on the language you're using and how you manage your dependencies. If you're using Java, see this writeup for how different frameworks can affect startup time: https://medium.com/google-cloud/java-frameworks-performances-on-cloud-run-eb243fd84a5c https://medium.com/google-cloud/java-frameworks-performances... Similarly, if you're using Node or Python, you might want to see if any of your dependencies are enormous with lots of files and slow startup time -- you can check this locally by timing how long it takes to get to the initial listen() call and just print that wall time as you adjust dependencies. If you're building Golang and you're seeing slow cold starts... I have no idea how you're doing that. For development, a lot of us on the open source http://knative.dev/ http://knative.dev/ side are using Go http servers that take tens of milliseconds to start up, so there's probably some other initialization that's slowing you down.
- gibbonsrcool 7y agoApp Engine Flex has to spin up a Compute Engine VM so deploys are slow. Cloud Run deploys containers to Borg so it's significantly faster.
- minimaxir 7y agoWhat's the best way to handle a button like this if you intentionally keep certain dependencies out of Git/GitHub? (e.g. my gpt-2-cloud-run repos [https://github.com/minimaxir/gpt-2-cloud-run https://github.com/minimaxir/gpt-2-cloud-run] have a 500MB dependency) Can you do a conditional in the Dockerfile, e.g. download a remote file if using Docker to build with certain parameters?
- alpb 7y agoOff-topic but I think Dockerfile allows downloading remote URLs, e.g.: ADD http://example.com ./file.txt
- jayd16 7y agoI've been using wget like a sucker?!
- alpb 7y agoI think using RUN wget/curl is actually cached better than ADD [URL], which will invalidate your build steps cache more often unless I'm mistaken.
- orf 7y agoIt's also easier to clean up, i.e download a file, do something with it and then remove it. With ADD this is impossible.
- rcfox 7y agoDoesn't ADD do the download unconditionally but only invalidate the cache if the contents change? The only good use for ADD that I've found is for invalidating git clones from GitHub: ADD https://api.github.com/repos/<user>/<repo>/git/refs/heads/<branch> version.json RUN git clone --depth=1 --single-branch --branch=<branch> https://github.com/<user>/<repo>.git
- PhilippGille 7y ago
- alephnan 7y agoDoes this work with private repos? I don't see documentation on this.
- sachinag 7y agoIs this different from how Netlify does it?
- typpo 7y agoBack in June a Googler added a cloud run button to one of my open-source repositories (https://github.com/typpo/quickchart#deploy https://github.com/typpo/quickchart#deploy). As a project maintainer, I like it because it gives prospective users a quick and cheap way to test out service deployment, and it required nothing more from me than the already existing Dockerfile.
- tango12 7y agoAny thoughts on auto-detecting the language/framework so that’s it’s just git push and you don’t even need a dockerfile? For a zeit or Heroku like experience. It might require a lot of conventions (which might not be worth it finally) but as a quick deploy and experiment solution, it’d be super awesome.
- alpb 7y agoDisclaimer: working on this project. When there are no Dockerfiles, we use CNCF Buildpacks (https://buildpacks.io https://buildpacks.io) similar to Heroku buildpacks. Some apps without Dockerfile are currently deployable using this, as buildpacks detect the language/framework.
- jacques_chester 7y ago> similar to Heroku buildpacks. In fact Heroku is one of the founding contributors for Cloud Native Buildpacks (along with Pivotal, where I work).
- alexandercrohde 7y agoConceptually cool. I wonder though if this would work for those of us whose application consists of multiple interdependent services living in multiple repos.
- gitgud 7y ago> sped up for your viewing pleasure... Has anyone tested how long this button actually takes? Last time I checked its at least a [1] 7 minute wait to deploy a "Hello World" to GCP... [1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40205222/why-does-google-appengine-deployment-take-several-minutes-to-update-service https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40205222/why-does-google...
- eliben 7y agoYou're linking to a question about a different service (App Engine) from 3 years ago
- thesandlord 7y agoYup, OP's time is in reference to App Engine Flex, which is much slower to deploy. I normally see 1-2 minute deployment times depending on the application. (I work for GCP)
- siquick 7y agoThis is excellent. Any way to pass environment variables?
- alpb 7y agoDisclaimer: I work on this project. Yes, you can create a file named app.json that prompts the user for environment variables that are set on the deployed application. See https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/cloud-run-button/ https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/cloud-run-button/
- betatim 7y agoThis looks pretty slick, will have to see which parts/ideas we should copy for https://mybinder.org https://mybinder.org. Which is an open-source project that lets you do something very similar, mostly based around people wanting to share notebooks. Colab but with automatically detected environment/build instructions.
- intellix 7y agoLooks awesome. Loved the deploy to Heroku button in the past. Now I just wait for websocket support to move my backend to cloud run as well
- jkarneges 7y agoIf you want to support websockets from a not-always-on backend, you can use Fanout or Amazon API Gateway.
- pier25 7y agoThe free tier seems pretty generous but I'm not sure I'm making sense of all these numbers [1]. Anyone has insight on how this compares to Heroku in terms of pricing/performance? [1] https://cloud.google.com/run/pricing https://cloud.google.com/run/pricing
- alexnewman 7y agoIs this free? How do I know google wont terminate it?
- emersonrsantos 7y agoIf you want to build your own micro PaaS, which is from Git to Deploy (on a Kubernetes cluster), check out https://rio.io https://rio.io (disclaimer: happy user).