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Google Cloud Run is a newly announced Google Cloud service. The idea is simple: it’s Docker on serverless. Google Cloud Run is similar to Google Cloud Function: you write code without worrying about infrastructure.

What makes it unique is that Google Cloud Run works directly with Docker containers, exposes Dockerfile , supports any programming language, custom domains and has much longer timeouts (15 minutes). Google Cloud Run on GKE also supports Websockets and GPUs/TPUs making it interesting choice for resource-intensive applications, like machine learning.

In this guide I’m going to show you how to dive into Google Cloud Run by running a simple static site in few minutes, using literally one command. In a word, your own poor man’s Netlify. This is one of the easiest ways to get the taste of the platform, even if there are definitely better use cases. (Please familiarize yourself with the Pricing first, but don’t worry: you likely won’t pay a dime thanks to the Free Tier.)