Real-time Data Analytics Microservices on GCP Cloud Run

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To implement real-time data analytics microservices on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) using Cloud Run, you will need to deploy a microservice that can process data in real-time and optionally, export or store the processed data. Cloud Run is a managed compute platform that automatically scales your stateless containers. Cloud Run is serverless: it abstracts away all infrastructure management, so you can focus on what matters most — building great applications.

The program below sets up a basic Cloud Run service using the Pulumi GCP provider in Python. This service will serve as the foundation for your microservice that will handle real-time data analytics. The microservice itself (code and logic) needs to be containerized and pushed to Google Container Registry (GCR) or another container registry that Cloud Run can access.

Here is the program that defines the Cloud Run service:

```python
import pulumi
import pulumi_gcp as gcp

# Replace 'DOCKER_IMAGE_URL' with your Docker image location
docker_image_url = 'gcr.io/your-project/your-analytics-microservice:latest'

# Define the Cloud Run Service
cloud_run_service = gcp.cloudrun.Service('analytics-service',
    location='us-central1', # Change as needed
    template=gcp.cloudrun.ServiceTemplateArgs(
        spec=gcp.cloudrun.ServiceSpecArgs(
            containers=[gcp.cloudrun.ServiceSpecContainerArgs(
                image=docker_image_url,
                resources=gcp.cloudrun.ServiceSpecContainerResourcesArgs(
                    limits={'cpu': '1000m', 'memory': '512Mi'}
                )
            )]
        ),
        metadata=gcp.cloudrun.ServiceMetadataArgs(
            labels={
                'purpose': 'real-time-analytics'
            }
        )
    ))

# Make the Cloud Run url available in the Pulumi stack output.
pulumi.export('service_url', cloud_run_service.statuses.apply(lambda status: status[0].url if status else None))
```

Let's go over each part of the program:
- We start by importing the necessary Pulumi libraries for Python.
- We define a `docker_image_url` variable, which should point to the Docker image of your analytics microservice. This image should be stored in a container registry that Cloud Run can pull from, such as Google Container Registry (GCR).
- We create a Cloud Run Service called `analytics-service` using the `gcp.cloudrun.Service` resource. In the `location` attribute, you should specify the region where you want your service to be deployed.
- In the `template` attribute, we use `gcp.cloudrun.ServiceTemplateArgs` to define the specifications of the Cloud Run service, such as the Docker image to use, any metadata (like labels), and resource limits for CPU and memory utilization.
- We specify one container within our service, using the Docker image URL we defined earlier. Here, you can also define environment variables and other configurations necessary for your microservice.
- We apply resource limits to the container so it doesn't consume more than the specified amount of CPU and memory.
- Finally, we use `pulumi.export` to make the service URL available as an output of our Pulumi stack. This allows you to easily access the URL where your service is available after deployment.

This minimal setup is enough to get your microservice up and running on GCP Cloud Run. However, you would need to develop the microservice itself, containerize it, and push it to GCR (or another registry) for this Pulumi program to work.

Before running the Pulumi program, make sure that you have authenticated with GCP, have the necessary permissions to create resources on Cloud Run, and that Pulumi is installed and configured on your machine.