Deploy your side-projects at scale for basically nothing – Google Cloud Run • Hacker News Board

Re: Deploy your side-projects at scale for basically nothing – Google Cloud Run

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Post by llampx » Sun, Jan 12, 2020, 6:05 PM UTC

tpetry wrote: post #6

remmargorp64 wrote: post #2

Of course, the downside to doing anything with a Google product is that it could be deprecated next year...

It‘s slready like a meme: the typical comment on the google cloud that it could be closed tomorrow. When will everyone understand that google cloud (money earning product) is different to all the other free products

Money-earning products have been shut down at Google before.

Re: Deploy your side-projects at scale for basically nothing – Google Cloud Run

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Post by inscrutable » Sun, Jan 12, 2020, 6:05 PM UTC

started using this... pretty awesome vs the wall of yaml it replaces. Not suitable for all workloads (max 1cpu/2 gigs ram, 4 minute max pod startup time, can't do background work when not serving a request). But it replaces cert-manager, ingress-nginx, oauth2-proxy, k8s service, k8s deployment, k8s secret, k8s configmap, k8s hpa, k8s pdb, helm charts and cluster management.

Re: Deploy your side-projects at scale for basically nothing – Google Cloud Run

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Post by aamederen » Sun, Jan 12, 2020, 6:06 PM UTC

AFAIK, PaaS solutions like heroku have a similar way of working, at least for side-projects. Here, you deploy a container and Google runs it somewhere and Heroku containerizes your application every time you push it. Similar to here, Heroku's free hobby containers also go to sleep in ~30min inactivity.

Re: Deploy your side-projects at scale for basically nothing – Google Cloud Run

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Post by datashow » Sun, Jan 12, 2020, 6:07 PM UTC

What will the bill look like if your website suddenly hit a big traffic (e.g. someone post your site on HN)?

Re: Deploy your side-projects at scale for basically nothing – Google Cloud Run

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Post by ealexhudson » Sun, Jan 12, 2020, 6:07 PM UTC

This is exactly the service that Azure needs and doesn't seem to have: while there is a consumption plan for functions, that's about it, and App Service is incredibly expensive for what you get.

Re: Deploy your side-projects at scale for basically nothing – Google Cloud Run

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Post by z023bs » Sun, Jan 12, 2020, 6:09 PM UTC

this is misleading, as cost curves are usually exponential for these types of managed services

Re: Deploy your side-projects at scale for basically nothing – Google Cloud Run

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Post by moksly » Sun, Jan 12, 2020, 6:09 PM UTC

The thing I really want out of these services is the ability to set a payment cap. It’s probably never going to be an issue, but I have anxiety, and I can’t sleep easily knowing that if I fuck up, if someone sinister abuses my application or whatever I may be stuck with a giant bill.

Re: Deploy your side-projects at scale for basically nothing – Google Cloud Run

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Post by sansnomme » Sun, Jan 12, 2020, 6:10 PM UTC

datashow wrote: post #14

What will the bill look like if your website suddenly hit a big traffic (e.g. someone post your site on HN)?

It goes up of course. Nothing's for free. Don't expect DigitalOcean level of pricing, the premise of cloud is on efficiency and scale, not necessarily being the cheapest raw computing provider when compared to traditional hosting. In other words it increases the elasticity of computation, but the price per unit of computation goes up. (Of course there are cost-savings like ops, security, uptime etc. But if you are talking about one-off side projects or something ML-related then the raw compute/bandwidth costs far outweighs everything else.) For PaaS the free tier is subsidized by your enterprise and other paying customers.

Re: Deploy your side-projects at scale for basically nothing – Google Cloud Run

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Post by [deleted] » Sun, Jan 12, 2020, 6:11 PM UTC

datashow wrote: post #14

What will the bill look like if your website suddenly hit a big traffic (e.g. someone post your site on HN)?

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Re: Deploy your side-projects at scale for basically nothing – Google Cloud Run

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Post by lallysingh » Sun, Jan 12, 2020, 6:12 PM UTC

remmargorp64 wrote: post #2

Of course, the downside to doing anything with a Google product is that it could be deprecated next year...

Can we standardize this standard comment? Say a URL that points to the problems we always see complaints about for using a Google service? Then someone posts that link at every Google HN post and we can all get on with our lives?

They're boilerplate and don't add to the discussion.