I should have mentioned this in the original post but the missing piece of the puzzle to help close that gap is Buildpacks https://buildpacks.io/ https://buildp

I should have mentioned this in the original post but the missing piece of the puzzle to help close that gap is Buildpacks https://buildpacks.io/ https://buildpacks.io/ which gets you out of the path of having to think about creating containers and again AFAIK is what Cloud Functions is using under the hood.