Application Development with Cloud Run Course Overview

The "Application Development with Cloud Run" course is designed to equip learners with the knowledge and skills necessary to build, deploy, and manage applications on Google Cloud's serverless platform, Cloud Run. The course provides a comprehensive overview of Cloud Run, emphasizing high availability, low end-user latency, and developer productivity as key architectural drivers for modern web applications. Learners will dive into container images and understand the benefits of serverless architectures on Google Cloud.

Through hands-on lessons, students will package applications into container images, learn about the shutdown lifecycle hook, implement versioning and traffic migration strategies, and configure service identity and authorization. The course also covers serving requests efficiently, implementing inbound and outbound access control, persisting data using various Google Cloud services, enabling service-to-service communication, and orchestrating workflows.

By the end of the course, participants will be proficient in deploying scalable, reliable, and secure applications with Cloud Run, thus enhancing their developer productivity and creating solutions that can automatically scale based on demand.