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GCP Cloud Run vs Drupal

So, I tried. I really did.  For a basic site, it can even probably work.  If you have a need for things like, user-supplied files.. then, omg, don't. Just.. no. Not sure how it copes with larger deployments, but the concept was to keep 1 instance alive, and spin up as many as needed for load. Right? Sounds like it should be good. But.. nope, even that one instance was unhappy. The main issue is that Drupal likes to WRITE files, not just read them, if it was just reading files, then it would be fine. Even D11 configured to use flysystem_gcs via a bucket with cached reads.. slow.  Configuring it to "write" files to a tmp disk.. kinda worked. But, FAIL for anything dynamic.  What worked:  Configuring the container to talk to Cloud SQL via a socket, works kinda great!  Pushing containers and updating them via `gcloud`, works well.  The artifact registry, the service-accounts, the database.. all work really well. Setting up cron-jobs via another pod/contain...

Another post time

The velocity is incredible. Two posts in.. as many months. I'm feeling lucky!