<p>I was thinking of testing out Google's Cloud Run for a simple app when all of a sudden I got thinking as to whether Cloud Run is basically a managed K8s cluster. I really wanted to know as to when using Cloud Run would be preferred over traditional K8s clusters and why we should prefer it?</p>

<p>Thanks.</p>

Nithin
<p>Technology wise, cloud Run is a managed Kubernetes cluster with Knative to run the containers on top of it.</p>

<p>However Cloud Run brings an additional advantages when you run fully managed: you only pay for used resources. In other words, Cloud Run can do scale down to zero cost, rather than bottoming out at the cost of keeping a minimum sized cluster running.</p>
