FAQ
Architecture
Why Kubernetes, how it relates to gcloud emulators, and state.
Why Kubernetes instead of a single binary?
Cloud Run deploys real containers on Knative, and kubectl, Helm and operators work on the same cluster.
Source: README.md, docs/upstream-evaluation.md
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gcloud emulators?It runs those same Google emulators for Pub/Sub, Firestore, Datastore, Bigtable and Spanner, and adds Cloud Run, Storage, Tasks, Secret Manager, KMS, Scheduler, Logging, credentials and a console around them.
Source: docs/status.md (per service), docs/compatibility.md (optional services)
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It depends on
--mode ephemeral|persistent and on the service. Pub/Sub never survives a restart; see "What is not persisted" in docs/install.md.Source: docs/install.md (what is not persisted), docs/status.md (what will not work and why)
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