Google Cloud Run, a flagship offering from Google Cloud Platform (GCP), is a serverless solution designed to effortlessly scale and run containerized applications in the cloud. By abstracting infrastructure management, it empowers developers to focus purely on code, deploying it within Docker containers that respond to HTTP requests. This fully managed platform seamlessly integrates with GCP's vast suite of services and is built upon the open-source Knative project, ensuring flexibility, portability, and optimal performance. Leveraging Cloud Run guarantees a balance between efficient resource usage and robust application responsiveness, epitomizing the fusion of containerization and serverless paradigms.
Orchestration systems decide where and when workloads run on a cluster of machines (physical or virtual). On top of that, orchestration systems usually help manage the lifecycle of the workloads running on them. Nowadays, these systems are usually used to orchestrate containers, with the most popular one being Kubernetes.
There are many advantages to using Orchestration tools: