Best Practices with Google Cloud: Infrastructure, Costs, and Real Challenges – Part 2

• Cloud Run: Ideal for stateless applications, APIs, and microservices. Combines serverless benefits with full container control
• Cloud Functions: Great for simple tasks, trigger events, or automated workflows (e.g. file uploads or email notifications)
  GKE: For complex, scalable applications with many services. Offers full Kubernetes power while focusing on security, automation, and high availability. Ideal when requirements for infrastructure, monitoring, and service orchestration grow
• Cloud Storage: For media or backup storage – simple, fast, cost-efficient
• Pub/Sub: Messaging for decoupled architectures – for example, when multiple services process the same data stream
• Cloud Build: Native CI/CD in the cloud – no additional infrastructure needed

In every project, we rely on Infrastructure as Code with Config Connector. The benefits are clear:

• Changes are traceable (versioning)
• Rollbacks are possible
• Environments can be cloned consistently

• Lack of standardization: Early projects had manually configured resources – hard to maintain and prone to error
• Complex IAM setups: Especially with clients involving multiple departments and external access, things can get messy fast

Two key rules to keep budgets under control:

• Activate budgets & alerts – per project, per department
• Regularly check forecasts – GCP provides solid estimates, if you use them

Google Cloud offers tremendous opportunities – but you need to know what you’re doing. Our recommendation: start small, structure cleanly, and review regularly. That approach saves time, money, and nerves.