tl;dr — new codelab for how to deploy a personal assistant agent on the new Cloud Run instances resource type.
Back in September, I presented in Sunnyvale, CA as part of the Accelerate AI with Cloud Run 2026 roadshow. A few months earlier, I was sitting at my favorite spot at my favorite coffee shop enjoying the start of summer and the quietness of a town vacant of university students. I noticed the coffee shop manager on his laptop using slack. It’s a locally owned shop with 4 other stores. I figured he was chatting with other store managers about inventory or the weather. Then it occurred to me, “What if he could chat with an agent?!” And that’s where I got the idea for the theme for a coffee shop saga.
- The saga begins with a coffee shop spinning up its first website (lab 0).
- Next the store adds agentic capabilities to the site (lab 1).
- Then the owners want help determining where they should set up new mobile locations (lab 2).
- And finally, the store owner creates a personal assistant agent to help with staffing and inventory prep for next year’s university graduation schedule…
Now that Cloud Run instances are available in public preview, I’ve updated the new coffee shop codelab (lab 3) that shows you how to deploy the coffee shop personal assistant agent on a Cloud Run instance.
Cloud Run instances are a new way to run long-lived, stateful workloads such as AI agents like OpenClaw or Hermes, in a low-cost, high-performant way. Since these personal agents often work continuously and tend to serve only one user at a time, Cloud Run services are not the best fit. Cloud Run services typically run stateless, high-throughput web services.
You can learn more about Cloud Run instances in our documentation. We look forward to your feedback!
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Source Credit: https://medium.com/google-cloud/continuing-the-coffee-shop-saga-with-cloud-run-instances-f9ccff612a61?source=rss—-e52cf94d98af—4
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