TL;DR I’m working on a project that includes multiple Cloud Run services. I’ve been putting my gcloud head on to deploy these services thinking that it’s curious there’s no way to write the specs as YAML configs. Today, I learned that there is: gcloud beta run services replace. What prompted the discovery was some frustration trying to deploy a JSON-valued environment variable to Cloud Run: local FIREBASE_CONFIG="{ apiKey: ${FIREBASE_API_KEY}, authDomain: ${FIREBASE_AUTH_DOMAIN}, projectId: ${FIREBASE_PROJECT}, storageBucket: ${FIREBASE_STORAGE_BUCKET}, messagingSenderId: ${FIREBASE_MESSAGING_SENDER}, appId: ${FIREBASE_APP}}" gcloud run deploy ${SRV_NAME} \ --image=${IMAGE} \ --command="/server" \ --args="--endpoint=:${PORT}" \ --set-env-vars=FIREBASE_CONFIG="${FIREBASE_CONFIG}" \ --max-instances=1 \ --memory=256Mi \ --ingress=all \ --platform=managed \ --port=${PORT} \ --allow-unauthenticated \ --region=${REGION} \ --project=${PROJECT} gcloud balks at this.