Running side containers in Google cloud run or Google App Engine

Question

Is it possible to run side containers or init containers in Google Cloud Run or App Engine? I couldn't find any documentation of this and trying to ask this on GCP support forums I was directed to ask at stack-overflow. If possible how would you accomplish this? I came across this repo but it wasn't helpful.

I know it is possible with GKS but trying to do the same with these services.

Answer 1

You can't, for now, running a Pod on Cloud Run, you can only run a container. However, it's possible to run a multi process container for helping you to achieve this.

You can find here and here a post from Ahmet for running several process in the same container.

Note: Ahmet is one of Cloud Run engineers at Google, you can rely on his articles!