Many Google Cloud Run users are starting to develop containers for the first time, but often they are migrating their existing applications. Sometimes, these apps aren’t designed as microservices that fit one-process-per-container model, and require multiple server processes running together in a container.
Often you will hear “running multiple processes in a container is bad”, although nothing is wrong with doing so, as I explained in my previous article comparing init systems optimized for containers.
In this article, I’ll show a not super production-ready (hence “the lazy way”)
but working solution for running multi-process containers on Cloud Run, and will
provide example code.