Cloud Run on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) enhances the experience of building and deploying scalable serverless applications. Use this course to become familiar with using Cloud Run on a GCP-powered, fully managed serverless platform. Explore Cloud Run architectures, the role of Knative, and how Cloud Run and Cloud Run for Anthos differ. Investigate the lifecycle of a Cloud Run container, services for defining serverless service workflows, and GCP's load balancing and autoscaling capabilities. Differentiate between Cloud Tasks and Cloud Scheduler and outline best practices for designing, implementing, testing, and deploying Cloud Run services. After completing the course, you'll be able to package a simple Node.js application into a container image, deploy it to Cloud Run, use Cloud Build triggers to automate builds and deployments to Cloud Run, set up Cloud Code extension on IntelliJ, and create Cloud Run services using Cloud Code's starter templates.