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by lostsoul8282 1507 days ago
We moved off Heroku about 2 years ago and use gcp. It’s been really good.

GitHub to cloud build. Cloud build deploys to cloud run. We setup multiple branches for different environments and it’s pretty much all streamlined.

We find the eco system pretty cool also we use scheduler and other cloud run instances for batch jobs. Worked great for us.

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I would second this. Side by side I put the GCP ecosystem several years in front of the other major ones AWS & Azure in terms of capabilities and even general day to day experience.

As for OP you might want to take a look at a combination of Cloud Native Buildpacks to keep that same Heroku like deployment experience that you’re already familiar with and combine it with something like Cloud Run which is a pretty simple contract where you give it an image and it will run it for you.

GCP (especially Firebase if you’re looking for a simple abstraction layer that feels more Heroku-like) is absolutely phenomenal.

If it wasn’t for the legendary bad support and constant Google-typical paranoia of and arbitrariness in shutting off services and banning accounts I‘d move my whole company to it from AWS in a heartbeat. (Realistically these points have never been an issue ever, but that kind of backdrop doesn’t feel too good)

AWS vs GCP feels like Windows Server vs a Linux server distro in terms of UI and complexity overhead