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Container Service on Google Cloud

The Google Cloud Container Service template scaffolds a Pulumi project that deploys a containerized service to Google Cloud Run for serverless container execution, with the container image stored in Artifact Registry. The template ships with placeholder app content so the project deploys end to end out of the box.

An architecture diagram of the Google Cloud Container Service template

Using this template#

To use this template to deploy your own container service, make sure you’ve installed Pulumi and configured your Google Cloud credentials, then create a new project using the template in the language of your choice:

Terminal window
mkdir my-container-service && cd my-container-service
pulumi new container-gcp-typescript

Alternatively, you can create and configure a new project with this template (container-gcp-typescript) in Pulumi Cloud.

Deploy with Pulumi

Follow the prompts to complete the new-project wizard. When it’s done, you’ll have a complete Pulumi project that’s ready to deploy and configured with the most common settings. Feel free to inspect the code in index.ts for a closer look.

Deploying the project#

You must supply an existing Google Cloud project ID and choose a region before deploying the container service. You can input both through the new-project wizard. Once the project is created, you can deploy it with pulumi up:

Terminal window
pulumi up

When the deployment completes, Pulumi exports the following stack output values:

url

The HTTP URL of your Cloud Run service.

Output values like these are useful in many ways, most commonly as inputs for other stacks or related cloud resources. The computed url, for example, can be used from the command line to open the newly deployed container in your favorite web browser:

Terminal window
open $(pulumi stack output url)

Customizing the project#

Projects created with the Container Service template expose the following configuration settings:

containerPort

The port mapping for the container service. Defaults to port 8080.

cpu

The amount of CPU to allocate to each container instance. Defaults to 1 CPU.

memory

The amount of memory to allocate to each container instance. Defaults to 1Gi.

concurrency

The maximum number of concurrent requests per container instance. Defaults to 50.

imageName

The name of the container image deployed to your Cloud Run service. Defaults to my-app.

appPath

The location of the Dockerfile used to build the container image. Defaults to the app folder, which contains a “Hello World” example app.

All of these settings are optional and may be adjusted either by editing the stack configuration file directly (by default, Pulumi.dev.yaml) or by changing their values with pulumi config set:

Terminal window
pulumi config set containerPort 3000
pulumi up

Cleaning up#

You can cleanly destroy the stack and all of its infrastructure with pulumi destroy:

Terminal window
pulumi destroy

Learn more#

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