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:

Prerequisites

Step 1

Step 2

Activate Cloud shell.

Click the right corner of the cloud shell button.

Click Continue.

Step 3

Enable Google App Engine Admin API,

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.