Cloud Build has 120 minute build minutes per day allowed under the "Always Free" tier.
GCP has changed the service to require your account to be capable of being billed — for excess usage and to prevent fraud. So if the complaint here is "GAE no longer lets you run code without having a credit card on file", that is correct^, but that's not what the title says.
^ Credit card, bank account, or any other "you have a valid financial services account" validation — Google is using the financial networks as a way to offload identity verification costs onto the banking sector:
> Google uses your credit card [and/or bank account] information for the following purposes: To verify your identity. To distinguish actual customers from robots.
https://cloud.google.com/free/docs/gcp-free-tier
Cloud Build has 120 minute build minutes per day allowed under the "Always Free" tier.
GCP has changed the service to require your account to be capable of being billed — for excess usage and to prevent fraud. So if the complaint here is "GAE no longer lets you run code without having a credit card on file", that is correct^, but that's not what the title says.
^ Credit card, bank account, or any other "you have a valid financial services account" validation — Google is using the financial networks as a way to offload identity verification costs onto the banking sector:
> Google uses your credit card [and/or bank account] information for the following purposes: To verify your identity. To distinguish actual customers from robots.