NodeJS implementation of the cold start mitigation proposed by @guillaumeblaquiere (already implemented in Go & Python)
A Cloud Run GCP service stop after an idle period, this time cannot be forseen. As a result, the next request after the stop, will have a cold start, a delay of one or several seconds, Cloud Run takes to start a new container. One of the cheap solutions proposed by Guillaume (https://medium.com/google-cloud/3-solutions-to-mitigate-the-cold-starts-on-cloud-run-8c60f0ae7894) is to schedule an http call every minute to keep alive the service. However this solution is not accurate as the stop can occurs in less than a minute after the last request. And Cloud Scheduling can't go under a minute.
Another solutions is presented to trigger the stop signal (a SIGTERM signal) to self call the service to try to keep it alive. This is what this code is about.
Easy steps:
npm install cloudrun-stay-awake- In the main file of your code, that will run a server (such as
app.js), just put this include directive somewhere in your code :require('cloudrun-stay-awake')
In case you want to perform some tests before deploying to your code, there is a Dockerfile that can be used to test it on Cloud Run
This library is licensed under Apache 2.0. Full license text is available in LICENSE.