Oh interesting, didn’t see the docker part, thought it was just language runtimes.
The data plane and pricing model is quite different from Cloud Run though. Cloud Run is multi-tenant like AppEngine Standard, will scale to zero, and instead of fixed monthly pricing, you pay for the amount of compute you use per-second
The real benefit seems to be its in-built CI/CD, and horizontal scaling, much like GCP Cloud Run:
"App Platform allows you to hook up your source code repo and deploy using a cloud-hosted build system that automatically detects the needed environment to run your app."
Somewhat relevant: apparently DigitalOcean's managed Kubernetes had serious security flaws in its early days after release. [0] Can anyone comment on this and whether it should colour our impressions here?
So this is this solution they’re offering after purchasing Nanobox? I wish it had more feature parity because this is a bit of let down after a year of waiting for what they with do with the Nanobox tech.
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[ 2.8 ms ] story [ 36.8 ms ] threadFrom what I gather, it looks like they deploy your code onto managed VMs instead of running your code on fully managed multi-tenant servers.
Disc: I work for Google opinions are my own
The data plane and pricing model is quite different from Cloud Run though. Cloud Run is multi-tenant like AppEngine Standard, will scale to zero, and instead of fixed monthly pricing, you pay for the amount of compute you use per-second
CPU Type|CPUs|RAM|Price/mo
Shared|1|1 GB|$12
1. Buy a $5/mo droplet
2. sudo apt-get install docker
3. run your Dockerfile
is that worth a $7/mo (140%) premium?
I would use it if it was the same cost as the underlying droplet.
"App Platform allows you to hook up your source code repo and deploy using a cloud-hosted build system that automatically detects the needed environment to run your app."
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22490390