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It so happens that I need serverless crontab + docker containers + programmatical access to container logs + per-second billing. This is precisely what Hyper.sh was offering but has discontinued.

Is anyone offering something like this?

Alternatively, if I had to build this in Google Cloud, how would one go about it? I was thinking Cloud Scheduler -> Pub/Sub -> Cloud Function -> Cloud SQL -> Compute Engine to run the docker command but not sure how to implement the container logs and per-second billing.

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Is anyone offering something like this?

Not sure about Google Cloud, but I'm pretty sure you can do all of that with AWS.

Cloudwatch Events[1] lets you use cron syntax to schedule events, and your events can trigger Lambda functions.

ECS[2] or EKS[3] support running Docker containers

You can log to Cloudwatch Logs[4][5] which definitely support programmatic access.

And many parts of the AWS stack, including the key ones like EC2 and EBS support per-second billing[6].

[1]: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/events/S...

[2]: https://aws.amazon.com/ecs/

[3]: https://aws.amazon.com/eks/

[4]: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/logs/Wha...

[5]: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/developerguide/...

[6]: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-per-second-billing-for-...

Thank you for all the links! Is the same also possible in GCP? I couldn't figure out how container logging works on GCP, for example.

I afraid I can't say; I really don't have much experience using GCP. Hopefully somebody else, who knows more about GCP, will chime in and answer.

This is what Zeit v1.0 was also doing but they moved to Zeit v2.0 and discountinued Docker support. Not sure why no Serverless platform gives Docker support.

Anyways, you might want to check out knative on GKE as serverless on Kubernetes means Docker support.

Here are the hosted and installable Serverless platforms: https://landscape.cncf.io/category=hosted-platform,installab...

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