Chapter 17: Going Serverless with Google App Engine

Container-based microservices is a very useful and modern approach that offers portability and flexibility by allowing you to migrate your applications seamlessly from one compute service to another with very little or no operational overhead and is available on Google Compute Engine (GCE), Google App Engine (GAE), Google Cloud Run, and Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE).

In this chapter, we turn our attention to Google App Engine (flexible), which is Google's longest serving and most mature serverless offering. The Google App Engine flexible environment does not offer the complex orchestration that Google Kubernetes Engine does, but if such orchestration is not required, then the Google App Engine ...

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