Cloud Run vs App Engine: What’s the difference?

Simple and to the point article, with a few commands included, by Dirk Hoekstra:

In a nutshell, you give Google’s Cloud Run a Docker container containing a webserver. Google will run this container and create an HTTP endpoint.

With Google’s App Engine however you tell Google how your app should be run. The App Engine will create and run a container from these instructions.

Have been using Cloud Run for a few projects recently and I really like it I must say! It just works™ without me having to think about it all too much, whilst also allowing me to finetune the environment.

Cloud Run vs App Engine →

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Published by Bramus!

Bramus is a frontend web developer from Belgium, working as a Chrome Developer Relations Engineer at Google. From the moment he discovered view-source at the age of 14 (way back in 1997), he fell in love with the web and has been tinkering with it ever since (more …)

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