How To Create A Small App Engine Application Deployment On Google Cloud Platform

Overview

 

In this article, I’m going to describe how to create a small App Engine application deployment on Google Cloud Platform.

 

In this session you will:

• Download starter code from a GitHub.
• Run your application locally from a Cloud Shell.
• Deploy your application with Google App Engine.

Prerequisites

• Google cloud platform subscription.

Step 1

 

Login to here.

 

Step 2

 

Activate Cloud shell.

 

Click the right corner of the cloud shell button.

 

 

Click Continue.

 

 

Step 3

 

Enable Google App Engine Admin API,

1. Click  Navigation Menu > APIs & Services > Library.
   
   
   
   
2. Type "App Engine Admin API" in the search box.
3. Click App Engine Admin API.
   
   
   
   
4. Enabled window
   
   
   

Step 4

 

Download the Hello world app

 

Run the following command in cloud shell

 

git clone

 

Step 5

 

Then go to the directory in the following command

 

d getting-started-java/appengine-standard-java8/helloworld

 

Step 6

 

Test the application using the application development server

 

Maven command to download and install Maven and run the app in the following command in cloud shell:

 

mvn.appengine:run

 

Output

 

[INFO]GCLOUD : INFO dev app server is now running.

 

View the app Click Web preview button > Preview on port 8080

 

 

Page should reassemble the following,

 

 

Step 7 - Deploy the app

 

Create an application on an App Engine with the following command

 

gcloud app create

 

Output

 

 

Do not use gcloud app deploy command as begun in the output to deploy the app, instead, run the following command to deploy the application.

 

mvn:appengine:deploy

 

You should get the following output,

 

 

Step 8 - View the application

 

Launch the browser in the following command,

 

gcloud app browse

 

OUTPUT

 

 

The application is deployed and displays the short message in the browser.