Comments on: How to run Discord bot on Cloud Run

By: Emil

Emil — Tue, 01 Jun 2021 09:52:56 +0000

In reply to Elijah.

My code is very simple, but I was also facing this problem. The solution was to move Cloud Run to another region… Probably you need to check which one would be the best for you, but I may say that in my case europe-west4 is the “fastest” one. 😀

By: Elijah

Elijah — Sat, 29 May 2021 21:15:30 +0000

I utilized a strategy similar to what you described, but my bot takes 60+ seconds to respond to commands when running on Google Cloud, whereas it takes 1-3 seconds to respond when running on my local machine. It would be great if you could publish your source code or offer more details on the deployment process.

By: Emil

Emil — Tue, 20 Apr 2021 08:02:44 +0000

In reply to Franz.

Hi! Thanks a lot! No, I haven’t tried to run python, but I have good news – I’m in the middle of the migration from node.js to python, so for sure I will face the same problem. 😀

No, I don’t have, I keep that on Bitbucket in private repository – unfortunately I was keeping credentials in repository (yeah, very bad thing) and I didn’t rewrite the repository history, so I’d prefer not to push everything to the public repo… 😀

By: Franz

Franz — Fri, 16 Apr 2021 04:29:00 +0000

Hey this was pretty cool!

Did you ever find out how to do something similar for Discord Python on Cloud Run? So far I’ve been trying to mess with threads so that it can spin up a flask instance to list on the ports, then not block the discord bot, but no luck so far.

Also do you have the JS Cloud Run source on github by any chance?

By: Emil

Emil — Sat, 27 Mar 2021 15:26:41 +0000

In reply to annoynmous.

Last month I paid 0.02$ for the whole services I use in GCP. 😀 So not only for Cloud Run (two Discord Bots running 24/7), but also few Cloud Functions (simple crawlers), Stackdriver Logging for all my services and occasionally Compute Engine for few hours.

There you can see the billing details for Cloud Run on my account from February 2021 – each month looks similar: https://storage.googleapis.com/ew-public-stuff/cloud_run_february_2021.png

Those “discounts” just cover the free part of each service (not Free Tier, as I finished Free Tier last year), so as you can see, I even cannot use the free resources. 😀

Does it answer your question?

By: annoynmous

annoynmous — Sat, 27 Mar 2021 00:29:41 +0000

What about pricing? Setting minimum instance straight up seems to be working for me. I am just a bit concerned as this bot is supposed to be running on multiple servers. Pricing looks generally fine to me but I am still confused about certain past. The only thing is that I never ran a cloud-run instance 24/7. It seems like you are doing pretty much the same. Can u share the ballpark of your monthly costs for GCP?

By: Emil

Emil — Mon, 01 Mar 2021 08:28:26 +0000

In reply to Raeshawn. Thanks! GKE would be something like shooting sparrows with a cannon. :D So I decided to use Cloud Run, but if I had more toys to run, I would use GKE as well (probably). Unfortunately, I don't have my own Discord server, but generally, I use this communicator, so I join any great server. :D

By: Raeshawn

Raeshawn — Sun, 28 Feb 2021 19:30:29 +0000

This was great,

I had done something similar with GKE, cloud run seems to be a few clicks less and a little more straightforward, I’ve been running my bot on this infrastructure for a couple of weeks now. If you’re on discord i’d love to chat more your site / blog has great content.