Cloud Run sends SIGTERM to PID 1 and kills the instance about ten seconds later
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When an instance is scaled down or replaced, Cloud Run delivers SIGTERM to the container's PID 1 and follows with SIGKILL after roughly ten seconds. Two conditions make handlers silently not run.
First, the signal reaches PID 1 only. A container started with a shell-form CMD runs the app as a child of /bin/sh, which does not forward signals, so the application never sees SIGTERM. Use exec-form CMD with a JSON array, or an init such as tini.
Second, under request-based CPU allocation the instance may be throttled during shutdown, so cleanup work can be starved before it completes. Keep the handler short: flush buffers, stop accepting work, and avoid starting new network calls.
Instances also disappear with no signal in some cases, including an out-of-memory kill or a crash. Shutdown handlers therefore cannot be the only mechanism guaranteeing durability; anything that must not be lost has to be committed before the response is sent.
Source: https://cloud.google.com/run/docs/container-contract
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