I have yet to gain positive experience with Cloud Run. I have one project with it, and Cloud Run is very unpredictable with autoscaling. Sometimes, it can start spinning up/down containers without any apparent reason, and after hunting Google support for months, they said it is an "expected behavior". Good luck trying to debug this independently because you don't have access to knative logs.
Starting containers on Cloud Run is weirdly slow, and oh boy, how expensive that thing is. I'm getting the impression that pure VMs + Nomad would be a way better option.
> I'm getting the impression that pure VMs + Nomad would be a way better option
As a long time Nomad fan (disclaimer: now I work at HashiCorp), I would certainly agree. You lose some on the maintenance side because there's stuff for you to deal with that Google could abstract for you, but the added flexibility is probably worth it.
> Starting containers on Cloud Run is weirdly slow
What is this about? I assumed a highly throttled cpu or terrible disk performance. A python process that would start in 4 seconds locally could easily take 30 seconds there.
I just use AWS EC2, load balancer, auto scaling groups. The user_data pulls and runs a docker image. To deploy I do an instance refresh which has no downtime. Obvious downside is more configuration than more managed services.
Starting containers on Cloud Run is weirdly slow, and oh boy, how expensive that thing is. I'm getting the impression that pure VMs + Nomad would be a way better option.