Hello World!
Google Cloud Platform has a range of different runtime environments to run your Java / Spring Boot application. The Hello World! sections will walk you through on how to deploy using all of the different runtimes.
Environment | Description | Deploys | When to use? |
​App Engine​ | Fully managed Platform-as-a-Service | Source or JAR | Web application and services. Scheduled tasks. |
​Cloud Functions​ | Fully managed Function-as-a-Service | Source or JAR | Webhooks, Event handlers |
​Cloud Run​ | Fully managed Container-as-a-Service | Container Image | Web application and services. Scheduled tasks. Event handlers. |
​Kubernetes Engine​ | Fully managed Kubernetes cluster | Container Image | Any workload |
​Compute Engine​ | Virtual Machine | Container Image, anything you bring | Any workload |
