Deploying container images in GCP - Mini Project: Build & Apply

Deploying container images

📖 Scenario: You work at a small company that wants to deploy a simple web application using containers on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). You will learn how to prepare and deploy a container image to Google Cloud Run, a service that runs containers without managing servers.

🎯 Goal: Build a basic deployment configuration to run a container image on Google Cloud Run.

📋 What You'll Learn

Create a variable with the container image URL

Set a variable for the service name

Write the command to deploy the container image to Cloud Run

Add the region flag to the deployment command

💡 Why This Matters

🌍 Real World

Deploying container images to Cloud Run is a common task for running scalable web applications without managing servers.

💼 Career

Cloud engineers and developers often need to deploy containerized applications quickly and reliably using command-line tools like gcloud.

1

Set the container image URL

Create a variable called container_image and set it to the exact string gcr.io/cloudrun/hello which is the container image URL.

GCP

# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use a string variable to hold the container image URL exactly as shown.

2

Set the Cloud Run service name

Create a variable called service_name and set it to the exact string hello-service which will be the name of your Cloud Run service.

GCP

container_image = "gcr.io/cloudrun/hello"
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use a string variable to hold the service name exactly as shown.

3

Write the deployment command

Write a variable called deploy_command that contains the exact string gcloud run deploy hello-service --image gcr.io/cloudrun/hello to deploy the container image to Cloud Run.

GCP

container_image = "gcr.io/cloudrun/hello"
service_name = "hello-service"
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use a string variable to hold the full deployment command exactly as shown.

4

Add the region flag to the deployment command

Update the deploy_command variable to include the region flag --region us-central1 at the end, so the full command is gcloud run deploy hello-service --image gcr.io/cloudrun/hello --region us-central1.

GCP

container_image = "gcr.io/cloudrun/hello"
service_name = "hello-service"
deploy_command = "gcloud run deploy hello-service --image gcr.io/cloudrun/hello"
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Append the region flag to the existing deployment command string exactly as shown.