Google Cloud Platform for Developers

Deploying App Engine flexible apps

Much like with the standard environment, applications can be deployed by providing application source code along with an app.yaml configuration file. Assuming the source code is written in one of the supported languages and complies with some basic conventions, the Google Cloud SDK will be able to package and deploy the application on your behalf. When deploying a service to the App Engine flexible environment, several things take place:

• Source code is pushed to a temporary Cloud Storage bucket
• Google Container Builder compiles the source code and packages the application into a new Docker image
• The Docker image is tagged with the service's version and stored in the Google Container Registry (GCR)
• A new ...