As we have already seen, getting Cloud Run on GKE up and running takes a lot of work in comparison to Cloud Run. Besides that, we also need to iterate against the development cycle to ensure the build, testing, and deployment processes are performed consistently.
Fortunately, there is a mechanism available to help out with the development life cycle. Cloud Build is used to automate development tasks and can easily be extended to automate many of the tasks associated with developing code. Making the transition to working with containers provides many benefits, but does add the additional layer of effort necessary to ensure the images reflect the latest changes. A typical life cycle may look something like the following:
- Amend the ...
