You need to expose a gRPC API that enqueues asynchronous requests consumed by other services, while minimizing infrastructure management. How should you deploy the API?

Cloud Run is the best choice because it is a fully managed, serverless platform that automatically scales and requires minimal infrastructure management, aligning perfectly with the "minimizing infrastructure management" requirement. It supports gRPC out of the box. Pub/Sub is a fully managed, scalable messaging service ideal for asynchronous communication between services, fulfilling the "enqueues asynchronous requests" need without managing message brokers. App Engine is also serverless but might be less flexible for gRPC compared to Cloud Run, especially for custom runtimes. GKE (Google Kubernetes Engine) and Compute Engine both involve significant infrastructure management (managing clusters, nodes, etc.), which contradicts the requirement to minimize it. Kafka also requires managing a cluster, unlike the fully managed Pub/Sub.