Goodbye Cloud Run, Hello Kubernetes

When I was originally building the MVP of ChatFox I decided it was a good time to try out Google's Cloud Run service. It's serverless but with the added bonus of being able to use normal Docker images!

After feeling a LOT of growing pains with Cloud Run - including issues with CRON jobs, slow load times, and general unreliability when interacting with the Slack API - it was time to move on.

I've been using Kubernetes for the last few years and it was the obvious choice to move to! Using Gitlab's amazing Auto DevOps it was a breeze to get it setup and configured.

ChatFox is now running much faster and more reliably!