This repo outlines a simple toy-example of an API built with Flask in Python, containerized with Docker, and deployed to Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
Read the relevant article here.
To create a docker image, navigate to this directory in a CLI and type:
docker build -t tut-api .
Next, deploy to GCP with:
gcloud builds submit --tag gcr.io/[PROJECT-ID]/tut-api
Finally, create a Cloud Run service using the new container.