I have accidentally deleted my application hosted in Google cloud app engine. IS there any way to restore it?
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To answer your question, no, it can't be restored if the Google App Engine service or the version you expect is deleted already.
The hierarchy is as follows - Account > Project > GAE Service > Versions
Whenever you deploy the app to a specific service, an additional new version is created for the service and the traffic is routed to that version. The old version is not deleted by default. In case you have not deleted it, you can select it under https://console.cloud.google.com/appengine/versions page and re-route traffic to it. In case you have deleted the old version manually, then poof - it's permanantly gone.
Note - If you're referring that you have deleted the GCP project itself, then you should be able to restore it within 30 days. Find the support documentation here - https://cloud.google.com/resource-manager/docs/creating-managing-projects#restoring_a_project
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I've recently done a UI update for my website, the backend is all identical. I want to access the latest deploy (with the no-promote flag) from 'beta.my-website.com' but still access the 'normal' site from 'my-website.com'. Ideally this would dynamically serve the latest version, but if not could I set it statically to the URL with project ID? I have bought my domain from 123reg. Is there a way to direct to the latest version regardless of it's traffic serving status?
TL;DR Can you set up a 'beta' site at beta.mywebsite.com while still being able to access the live version on www.mywebsite.com on google cloud?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
I don't think that can be done like that.
You could deploy to a different appengine project by putting a different project id and then have beta.mywebsite.com route to that project instead. The nice thing about this option is everything else would be isolated (i.e. no chance of your beta changes causing bad data in your production database, or tasks in your queues)
Another option would be to deploy to a different service within your project and use your dispatch.yaml to route beta.mywebsite.com to it https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/python3/reference/dispatch-yaml
A third option would be to put beta as your version-id, and have your DNS redirect beta.mywebsite.com to beta-dot-your_project_id.appspot.com. However, when the user goes to beta.mywebsite.com they would ultimately see beta-dot-your_project_id.appspot.com in the URL bar. Also, when you're ready to go live, you would want to redeploy and promote that new version id and not promote the beta version-id.
I am unable to permanently delete Google App Engine managed VMs I've created. I've deleted them multiple times both from the developer's console and by using the gcloud command. In every case the command completes successfully and the VM is deleted, but then almost immediately Google creates a brand new VM to take its place.
Does anyone know how to permanently delete managed VMs? Thanks.
We are working on improving this experience. For now, though, one workaround is to deploy a non-Managed VM instance as the default version and delete any other versions that are Managed VM-based. Again, this issue is on our radar to be fixed.
[Chris Ramsdale, Product Manager for App Engine]
I wanted to update this post with some of my solutions to deploying (with versions) and deleting instances on Google Compute Engine's managed VMs. Here's a solution I found for deleting the default GCE managed VM:
Make sure you have the up-to-date GCE components. Run gcloud components update in the Google Cloud SDK Shell.
In your app.yaml, remove the vm:true, resources: section, and manual scaling: section.
Navigate to Compute -> App Engine -> Versions and record the <default-version-number>. Mine looks like 20150722t1245032 with the words (default) indicating the default version.
Deploy the application, set the default, and specify the default version. gcloud preview app deploy "...\app.yaml" --set-default --version=<default-version-number>.
Navigate to Compute -> Compute Engine -> VM instances. Select the default instance and delete.
I was also taught how to stop deploying additional instances:
The key is to specify the version number gcloud preview app deploy "...\app.yaml" --set-default --version=<version-number>. #ZacharyNewman was able to help me with this problem.
And finally, this is how to delete the additional versions of an instance:
Navigate to Compute -> App Engine -> Versions and delete the versions you don't want.
Navigate to Compute -> Compute Engine -> VM instances. Select the instances you don't want and delete.
Hope this helps!
There might be a simpler way to explain this -- "basically, you cannot delete a version that's receiving 100% of the traffic."
Therefore, you just need to create a non managed VM, like a simple helloworld application. Then, you can move all of the traffic to this helloworld application (see graphic, I named mine version 0), then, delete version 20160... or whatever the name of your vm is.
At some point in time, you're probably going to experiment or spin up your managed VM again. When you do that, it will automatically start getting 100% of the traffic.
Or, if you happen to know version number receiving 100% of the traffic, you can always deploy a simple, non managed VM, with this version.
In Google Cloud Console under App Engine -> Versions , select the default version of your managed VM application and use STOP button to turn it off.
I ran into the same problem this is how i was able to stop the managed VM permanently. Just go to appengine -> settings -> disable application. This will automatically stop and delete your VM. In future if you want to run managed vm just enable application this will redeploy your application to the last known version.
I don't see any of my App Engine projects from either https://appengine.google.com/start or https://cloud.google.com/console/project.
I'm not sure if I've deleted them, while I can't create a new project with the same id.
Given that (a) you're sure you're logged in with the correct account, and (b) you don't see it in either the AppEngine or the Developers console UI, it most likely has been deleted.
Since AppEngine disallows reuse of application ids, it will prevent creating an app of the same name.
As an aside, if you remember the exact name of your AppEngine app, you can try to access it at this URL:
https://appengine.google.com/dashboard?&app_id=s~[app-name-here]
and if you get redirected back to the main AppEngine page, then it has been deleted.
I recall seeing an option on the google app engine admin page that would allow me to duplicate/copy a deployment to a different appid. Was I imagining this? I do have a copy of all the files needed for deployment but I do not currently have access to a computer with admin privileges in order to install the GAE SDK.
Not relevant to this question, but FYI I need to do this simply because there is a major bug that's preventing me from logging in to a particular part of the admin interface and google tech support has failed to resolve the issue, so I'm just trying a workaround.
Copy old settings to new app via the admin console admin>application settings>Duplicate Application Settings. (you'll choose new appid here too)
Then upload a version of your code to the new appId (so you'll need gae sdk or use online sdk devtable).
Then go to datastore admin in the old app, select all the entities and choose "copy to another app" You'll need datastore admin to be enabled on the old app (and new app I think).
Is it possible to delete an GAE application after it has been created?
I made a mistake while typing the name and now have a dummy application that I haven't been able to remove.
With the new Google Cloud console, you can still disable GAE applications as before (App Engine --> Settings --> Disable). They cannot currently be deleted. However you can delete the entire project by going to IAM --> Settings --> Shut Down. This button is in the header and a bit tricky to spot. It looks like this:
As of AppEngine SDK 1.2.6 it's possible to delete apps completely. But beware, the app-id won't be usable again.
As most of the answers are outdated or contradictive and this is an important question I decided to clarify current possible solutions when intending to delete an application in Google App Engine or having related issues.
Currently, there is no way to delete an existing app in GAE. Once created it cannot be removed, nor its initial settings can be changed (like the region where it was deployed). The only possible workaround is starting a new project and deploying a new application. There were feature requests in Google Issue Tracker regarding these issues: deleting an app and changing zone/region. You can still delete the whole project as described in Steve Armstrong's answer, but bear in mind that this will remove everything you created there (like GCE, GKE etc.), not only GAE.
However, it all depends on why you would like to delete your app. If you would simply like to stop it from serving requests or you don't want it to incur further costs, you can disable the app as described in the GCP docs here.
This feature is already logged, please star it:
http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=335
To disable /delete your application:
In the Administration Console, click your application to make it the active application.
Click Application Settings on the left side under Administration.
Click Disable Application.
Click Disable Application Now.
If you want to delete your app:
If billing is enabled for your app, disable billing. You aren't allowed to delete before you do this.
Click Request Permanent Deletion. The application will be deleted in approximately 72 hours.
To re-enable your disabled application, click Re-Enable Application.
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There currently isn't a way to delete a GAE application.
Beyond disabling the App Engine application you can:
Disable it's API permission under APIs & Services
Remove the App Engine related files from Storage
Delete App Engine permissions under IAM & Admin
Delete the App Engine Service account
This will freeze all App Engine related billing charges for the undeletable disabled App engine application. At least it worked for me :)
I was evaluating if we could use AppEngine and ran the standard tutorial which created a test app for me under my the default project. When I tried to delete the App I was shocked that it can't be done ! The only way is to delete the project which would delete all other GKE and any other services under that account.
After a bunch of research and calling product support of Google this what they suggested: To upgrade to Silver Support for 150$/month and send them an email to delete the app.
Here is the chat session with Google Support. If you were considering using Google AppEngine I would think again.
This issue has been fixed; see the docs here:
https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/python/console/?csw=1#delete_app
Carlos, you're right that the issue has been fixed, and I up-voted you for that. However, your link is a little outdated and an updated link is listed below.
https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/adminconsole/applicationsettings#Disable_or_Delete_Your_Application
open https://console.cloud.google.com/cloud-resource-manager?organizationId=0 ,select the project(or application) to be deleted,then click delete
I wanted to delete some legacy Google App Engine applications I made years ago, but when I tried to delete them from the new Google Cloud Platform (like this: https://support.google.com/cloud/answer/6251787#shut-down-a-project) I kept getting "You do not have permission" errors. The solution I found was to sign up for a free trial of Google Cloud Platform, then I was able to delete them.
I couldn't find to delete the default app-engine, however if you navigate to App Engine > Settings , there is a button to Disable it and it stop serving. when you click on the button type the project name in the prompt.