Deploying an App Engine Application

The Google Associate Cloud Engineer certification exam does not require engineers to write an application, but we are expected to know how to deploy one. In this section, you will download a Hello World example from Google and use it as a sample application that you will deploy. The app is written in Python, so you’ll use the Python runtime in App Engine.

Deploying an App Using Cloud Shell and SDK

First, you will work in a terminal window using Cloud Shell, which you can start from the console by clicking the Cloud Shell icon. Make sure gcloud is configured to work with App Engine by using the following command:

gcloud components install app-engine-python

This will install or update the App Engine Python library as needed. If the library is up to date, you will receive a message saying that.

When you open Cloud Shell, you may have a directory named python-docs-samples. This contains a number of example applications, including the Hello World...