Your First Cloud Run Deployment

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Your First Cloud Run Deployment

In this hands-on lab, you'll familiarize yourself with Cloud Run, both in the web Cloud Console and via the command line in Cloud Shell. You'll deploy a Hello World container image to Cloud Run, and then import a public image from Docker Hub to create a second Cloud Run service.

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Lab Info

Level

Beginner

Last updated

Sep 22, 2025

Duration

30m

Challenge

Deploy a Hello World Container in the Cloud Console

Deploy a container using the hello sample container with Cloud Run through the Google Cloud Console. Make sure to configure the deployment for unauthenticated invocations and set the maximum number of instances to 1. Deploy the image and test the service URL. Once completed, delete the deployment before moving on to the next objective.
Challenge

Deploy a Hello World Container with the Cloud Shell

Launch Google Cloud Shell and configure the environment to use the provided project, the managed platform, the us-east1 region, and configure Docker authentication. Once that has been completed, deploy the sample container with Cloud Run from the Cloud Shell and test the service URL.

Once completed, delete the deployment before moving on to the next objective.

Note: Make sure to set the deployment to use 2 CPUs and 4Gi of memory.
Challenge

Deploy a Public Docker Image to Cloud Run

In Cloud Shell, pull down the public docker image mattipaksula/http-doom. Once pulled, tag the image and push the image to the Google Cloud Registry. Deploy the image and test the service URL. Upon completion, delete the deployment.

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