Google Cloud Platform for Developers

Deploying a service to the flexible environment

Services built for the flexible environment are deployed in a similar manner as the standard environment, using the same gcloud app deploy command. Building on previous examples, a simple Node.js implementation of the colors service has been provided using a custom runtime. To deploy this service, go to chapter_04/example_04 in this book's source code and run:

gcloud app deploy app.yaml

You will notice that the deployment process for this service is much slower than in earlier examples. This is largely due to the fact that App Engine must build a new Docker image for the service and provision a Compute Engine VM, both of which take a non-trivial amount of time.

Keep this startup time in mind ...