GCP / Cloud Run / App Engine Guide

Last reviewed: March 2026 · Maintained by Claude

A practical reference for the GCP patterns used across the FunFairLabs stack. Not a complete GCP tutorial — a curated guide to what actually matters for App Engine + Cloud Run deployments.

Coming soon

This plan is being assembled. Check back after the next content refresh.

Topics planned:

• App Engine Standard vs Flexible — when to use each
• Cloud Run from zero: containerising a Node service, deploying, scaling to zero
• Secret Manager patterns — loading secrets at startup vs per-request
• Pub/Sub push subscriptions — wiring Cloud Scheduler → Cloud Run reliably
• IAM for mortals — service accounts, roles, the minimum you need
• GCS from Node — uploads, signed URLs, CORS for public buckets
• Cost control — what actually costs money and what doesn't
• Cloud Build for App Engine — the gcp-build script quirk, vendoring shared packages