Question

A retail company runs an internal reporting service that is only used a few times a day when managers request sales summaries. The service is packaged as a stateless container. Management wants to avoid paying for compute when the service is idle, and the operations team does not want to manage servers, scaling policies, or clusters. Which Google Cloud compute option best fits these requirements?

Accepted Answer

Deploy the container to Cloud Run, which scales to zero when there is no traffic

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Deploy the container to a Compute Engine managed instance group with autoscaling

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Deploy the container to a Standard GKE cluster with a horizontal pod autoscaler

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Deploy the container to a single always-on Compute Engine VM