Building Google Cloud Platform Solutions

Getting started

To get started with the App Engine standard environment, let's build a simple Python application. The source code for this exercise is in chapter_02/example_01 of this book's Git repository. In this directory, you'll find a few files:

• The app.yaml file is as follows:

runtime: python27api_version: 1threadsafe: truedefault_expiration: "30s"env_variables:  COLORS_URL: https://colors-dot-{}/colorshandlers:- url: /admin/.*  script: main.app  login: admin- url: /api/.*  script: main.app- url: /  static_files: index.html  upload: index.html

The app.yaml configuration file informs App Engine how a given service should be managed. At a minimum, a configuration file will define the application runtime, the API version, and one or more ...