For me the selling point of cloud run is that is easy to develop and debug: make it run locally, test it, then ship it in a container. For GCP cloud functions,

For me the selling point of cloud run is that is easy to develop and debug: make it run locally, test it, then ship it in a container. For GCP cloud functions, AWS lambdas, Azure cloud functions you must fight somehow against the environment (that's the reason frameworks like Zappa exist). If you want/need to use compute instances, you can use KNative in your K8s cluster and enjoy a "similar" scaling experience.