I've seen projects run on Cloud Run because they fit that model. But if you don't quite fit the model, then you fight the abstraction in odd ways. K8s gives you

I've seen projects run on Cloud Run because they fit that model. But if you don't quite fit the model, then you fight the abstraction in odd ways. K8s gives you control over more things, so the easy stuff feels hard but the harder things aren't as hard. With k8s operators you can stand up pretty complex things very quickly and robustly.