Temporal Serverless Workers enter pre-release on Google Cloud Run, enabling scale-to-zero durable workflows.
Temporal has announced the pre-release of Temporal Serverless Workers running on Google Cloud Run. This feature allows developers to invoke Temporal workflows as serverless functions, scaling worker infrastructure automatically up, down, and to zero based on demand. By removing the need for manual capacity planning, autoscaling strategy configuration, and idle infrastructure management, developers can achieve cost efficiency while maintaining durable execution capabilities for background tasks and complex workflows.
Running Temporal workers in serverless environments used to be challenging due to persistent connection requirements and scale-to-zero constraints, making Cloud Run support a major UX win for backend developers.
- –Eliminates idle infrastructure costs by enabling complete scale-to-zero execution for worker nodes.
- –Removes manual capacity planning and custom autoscaling setup for Temporal workflow processing.
- –Seamlessly integrates Google Cloud Run's managed container platform with Temporal Cloud durability guarantees.
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2026-08-07
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