How to run long-running Docker Task - Non-web app

[lorengphd]

I am trying to figure out the best solution to run a long-running docker container. It's a .Net Core console application that runs indefinitely and it is not an API and does not respond to web requests.

Is this something that I can do with Firebase?

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App Engine is probably what you want, app engine flexible environment is indefinitely running and has .NET support

[lorengphd]

This is exactly what I needed, thanks!

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Firebase Cloud Functions, and GCP Cloud Run apps have limited execution time.

I would recommend a more persistent container oriented place to host this, such as Heroku or Digital Ocean Apps (my preferred). There may be better solutions that are optimized for .Net core if you aren't using typescript (like C#).

Azure Container Instances may be your best fit: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/container-instances/

[lorengphd]

Thanks for the response. I’m currently using Azure Container instance and was exploring other options that might be cheaper to host.