Will I be able to use cloud armor policies with my firebase hosted cloud run service? At the moment, I know I can use it with my load balancer, but once I switch to firebase hosting, will I still be able to apply my cloud armor policies to my firebase hosted cloud run service? Are there any say, default security features from cloud armor or built internally into firebase hosting I get by default when using firebase hosting?
Cloud Armor can't be used together with Firebase Hosting. For one of my production Cloud Run services I needed rate limiting. As the Cloud Run service was fronted by Firebase Hosting I couldn't use Cloud Armor. Instead I added a rate limiting middleware to my Cloud Run application code. My Cloud Run service was using Node.js and Express, so there is a rich ecosystem of middleware modules.
If I have my web application on google cloud run, say, a laravel application, all the static assets are on the laravel application and not external (they live on the cloud run service). When I configure it to use firebase hosting, will firebase CDN cache the static content on the cloud run service?
Yes, Firebase Hosting will cache your static assets that are served by Cloud Run. You can customize this caching behavior by setting the HTTP cache headers in your Cloud Run code or in your firebase.json file.
Does enabling firebase hosting with my cloud run service, using a custom domain come at any additional cost? Is there a free tier and another where I have to consider paying?
There is no fixed monthly cost for using Firebase Hosting with a custom domain in front of your Cloud Run service. You do pay for bandwidth with Firebase Hosting, but the first 360 MB/day are free. You would pay for bandwidth if you used Cloud Run without Firebase Hosting too.
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Will I be able to use cloud armor policies with my firebase hosted cloud run service? At the moment, I know I can use it with my load balancer, but once I switch to firebase hosting, will I still be able to apply my cloud armor policies to my firebase hosted cloud run service? Are there any say, default security features from cloud armor or built internally into firebase hosting I get by default when using firebase hosting?
Cloud Armor can't be used together with Firebase Hosting.
For one of my production Cloud Run services I needed rate limiting. As the Cloud Run service was fronted by Firebase Hosting I couldn't use Cloud Armor. Instead I added a rate limiting middleware to my Cloud Run application code. My Cloud Run service was using Node.js and Express, so there is a rich ecosystem of middleware modules.
If I have my web application on google cloud run, say, a laravel application, all the static assets are on the laravel application and not external (they live on the cloud run service). When I configure it to use firebase hosting, will firebase CDN cache the static content on the cloud run service?
Yes, Firebase Hosting will cache your static assets that are served by Cloud Run. You can customize this caching behavior by setting the HTTP cache headers in your Cloud Run code or in your firebase.json file.
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Does enabling firebase hosting with my cloud run service, using a custom domain come at any additional cost? Is there a free tier and another where I have to consider paying?
There is no fixed monthly cost for using Firebase Hosting with a custom domain in front of your Cloud Run service. You do pay for bandwidth with Firebase Hosting, but the first 360 MB/day are free. You would pay for bandwidth if you used Cloud Run without Firebase Hosting too.