Google Cloud Functions on .NET

.NET for Google Cloud Functions (Alpha)

I spoke at many .NET conferences over the last 3-4 years and one of the top requests I always received was: When will .NET be supported on Cloud Functions?

Unfortunately, I didn’t have a good answer for a while. That all changed last month with the following tweet from Jon Skeet from our C# team:

.NET Core 3.1 updates in Cloud Shell and App Engine flexible environment

.NET Core 3.1 updates on Google Cloud

.NET Core 3.1 was released on December 3rd, 2019 and is a LTS release, supported for three years.

In Google Cloud, you could already deploy .NET Core 3.1 containers in Cloud Run (see cloud-run-dotnetcore-31) and also in App Engine flexible environment with a custom runtime.

We recently extended .NET Core 3.1 support in a couple of ways:

  1. Cloud Shell now supports .NET Core 3.1.
  2. App Engine flexible environment runtime now supports .NET Core 3.1.

.NET Core 3.1 in Cloud Shell

Inside Cloud Shell, you can see the latest 3.1.301 version:

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