I don't think that unique really applies here - You can do the same with Google app engine standard runtime, or custom runtime if you want to use your own dockerfile.
https://cloud.google.com/appengine/
Last time I tried using GAE beta with custom Docker containers (±last year) it was an epic journey of pain and confusion. The docs are split-brain between standard and beta and the rapidly evolving APIs paired with equally rapid out of date (official) example projects is completely schizo. [edit: I should mention, though, I loved that they have those example projects at all! It was just frustrating to constantly be battling api obsolence in their projects.]
GAE is great, don't get me wrong. But it's so much more than just Dockerized app hosting, and it's not so great at doing just that. If hyper.sh has any half decent onboarding flow thought out, it should be a clear winner.
I feel that pain on the splitbrain docs. That's my number one complaint about their API's - I'm never sure if I'm on the newest. That said, there's a "familiarity" to them... once you figure out how things changed it's easy to quickly determine the age of a code sample.
You should try the custom runtime again! It's come a long way since Beta.
nothrabannosir|8 years ago
GAE is great, don't get me wrong. But it's so much more than just Dockerized app hosting, and it's not so great at doing just that. If hyper.sh has any half decent onboarding flow thought out, it should be a clear winner.
Selfcommit|8 years ago
You should try the custom runtime again! It's come a long way since Beta.