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Valentin Prugnaud 🦊
Valentin Prugnaud 🦊

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Deploy Vue.js on Google Cloud Run

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Repository: WhatDaFox/vuejs-cloud-run-poc

Configure Google Cloud

To be able to build and deploy, you will need a Google Cloud project, with a billing account set up, as well as
the Google Cloud CLI installed.

Then you will need to create a configuration for your project:

$ gcloud config configurations create cloud-run $ gcloud auth login # and follow the steps $ gcloud config set project YOUR_PROJECT_ID
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Create the project 

$ npm i -g @vue/cli $ vue create cloud-run
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Vue CLI creates a Single Page Application type of project, so I needed to install serve to serve the project after the build.

To install serve, run:

$ npm install --save-dev serve
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I had to update the package.json file with the "start" script, like so:

"scripts": { ..., "start": "serve -p $PORT dist/", }
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Now we are ready to create the Dockerfile.

Create the Dockerfile

Now we can build the app and run the start command.

# Use the official lightweight Node.js 12 image. # https://hub.docker.com/_/node FROM node:12-alpine ENV PORT=8080 # Create and change to the app directory. WORKDIR /usr/src/app RUN set -ex && \  adduser node root && \  chmod g+w /app && \  apk add --update --no-cache \  g++ make python \  openjdk8-jre # Copy application dependency manifests to the container image. # A wildcard is used to ensure both package.json AND package-lock.json are copied. # Copying this separately prevents re-running npm install on every code change. COPY package*.json ./ # Install production dependencies. RUN npm ci # Copy local code to the container image. COPY . ./ RUN npm run build # Run the web service on container startup. CMD [ "npm", "run", "start" ]
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Build & Deploy

Now, we can use Cloud Build to build our docker image. Cloud Build will automatically detect our Dockerfile, build,
and push our image in Google Container Registry:

$ gcloud builds submit --tag gcr.io/YOUR_PROJECT/helloworld
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Once that's done, we can run the following command to deploy our new revision to Cloud Run:

$ gcloud run deploy --image gcr.io/YOUR_PROJECT/helloworld --platform managed
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Benchmark

When testing, I ran a small (to avoid crazy costs) benchmark with Apache Benchmark.

Here is the command I ran:

$ ab -n 1000 -c 80 https://cloud-run-url/
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Here are the results:

This is ApacheBench, Version 2.3 <$Revision: 1843412 $> Copyright 1996 Adam Twiss, Zeus Technology Ltd, http://www.zeustech.net/ Licensed to The Apache Software Foundation, http://www.apache.org/ Benchmarking helloworld-2fjcn3qpbq-uw.a.run.app (be patient) Completed 100 requests Completed 200 requests Completed 300 requests Completed 400 requests Completed 500 requests Completed 600 requests Completed 700 requests Completed 800 requests Completed 900 requests Completed 1000 requests Finished 1000 requests Server Software: Google Server Hostname: helloworld-2fjcn3qpbq-uw.a.run.app Server Port: 443 SSL/TLS Protocol: TLSv1.2,ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305,2048,256 Server Temp Key: ECDH X25519 253 bits TLS Server Name: helloworld-2fjcn3qpbq-uw.a.run.app Document Path: / Document Length: 746 bytes Concurrency Level: 80 Time taken for tests: 8.671 seconds Complete requests: 1000 Failed requests: 0 Total transferred: 1272004 bytes HTML transferred: 746000 bytes Requests per second: 115.33 [#/sec] (mean) Time per request: 693.656 [ms] (mean) Time per request: 8.671 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests) Transfer rate: 143.26 [Kbytes/sec] received Connection Times (ms) min mean[+/-sd] median max Connect: 49 391 156.9 370 888 Processing: 32 252 106.9 285 878 Waiting: 28 198 101.0 185 876 Total: 313 643 204.8 620 1398 Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms) 50% 620 66% 703 75% 734 80% 790 90% 898 95% 1054 98% 1136 99% 1194 100% 1398 (longest request)
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Conclusion

Really easy to deploy VueJS on Cloud Run and the performances aren't bad, even with a cold start.

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