Bruce Mcpherson has been working on a series of articles exploring how to liberate native Apps Script logic from its browser-based sandbox. If you’ve been following along, you’ll know he’s previously covered AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Run, and Kubernetes. Bruce has now added Azure Container Apps (ACA) to the list of supported environments.
TL;DR: By using the
@mcpher/gas-fakeslibrary and Workload Identity Federation, you can run native Apps Script logic on Azure Container Apps Jobs. This approach offers a massive 24-hour execution window, making it suitable for high-intensity tasks like large data migrations or security scans that would otherwise time out in the standard Google environment.
Moving logic to Azure introduces some complexity, particularly around authentication, which Bruce covers in his post and to bridge this gap, the project includes a custom Identity Bridge to handle the handshake between Azure and Google.
You can read the full technical breakdown and access the comparison matrix on Bruce’s blog.
Source: Yes – you can run native apps script code on Azure ACA as well! – Desktop liberation
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