Cloud Run cross-region failover routing traffic away from an unhealthy region

AI & Cloud Infrastructure · Jul 16, 2026 · 13 min read

Cloud Run cross-region failover went GA on 29 June 2026: the service health setup that survives a regional outage

Cloud Run now fails over between regions automatically using readiness probes and serverless NEGs. Here is the working gcloud setup, plus the two defaults that silently break failover.

Manu Shukla

#Cloud Run #Google Cloud #high availability

Glowing server processor on a dark circuit board with light bars scaling down beside it

Cloud & FinOps · Jul 16, 2026 · 18 min read

Kubernetes in-place pod resize hits GA in v1.35: rightsize pods without restarts

In-place pod resize graduated to stable in Kubernetes v1.35, and pod-level resize reached beta in v1.36. What changed, what still forces a restart, and how to wire it to the Vertical Pod Autoscaler.

Manu Shukla

#Kubernetes #FinOps #SRE