Cannot delete a version - gcloud app versions stop [id] - google-app-engine

I cannot use the "gcloud app versions stop", I dont know how to quit automatic mode.
It throws the following error:
ERROR: (gcloud.app.versions.stop) INVALID_ARGUMENT: serving status cannot be changed for Automatic Scaling versions

As documented here:
This command stops serving the specified versions. It may only be used
if the scaling module for your service has been set to manual.
The scaling pattern for your app is defined in the app.yaml file (or appengine-web.xml file in Java), for example:
manual_scaling:
instances: 5
Note that if you haven't specified scaling policy in that file, it defaults to automatic scaling, thus the error you're getting.

It's possible to get into a situation where you're getting the error you mentioned, but can't change the yaml file as mentioned in LundinCast's answer because you're also getting this error when you try to deploy:
INVALID_ARGUMENT: Your app may not have more than 15 versions. Please delete one of the existing versions before trying to create a new version.
In that situation, I wasn't able to find a solution from the terminal, but it's easy enough to go to the "versions" page of the console to manually delete a version, which is available here:
https://console.cloud.google.com/appengine/versions

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GCP App Engine - How to serve newest files

I'm using GCP App Engine with auto scaling.
If I deploy a new version of the app code (Python 3 Flask app) with a simple change for control and test purposes, lets say I add a comment to one of the .js files I am not seeing that change to the file in the browser after it has been deployed.
I have 100% of traffic being served by the new version of the app. When I look at the source code for the version I can see the comment in there, but when I clear my browser cache and visit the page I only ever get the old version of the page (without the comment in the .js).
I have tried using the --promote and --no-cache values in the app deploy command, but no use. I have added:
default_expiration: "0d 0h 0m 0s"
To the app.yaml
I have also turned on object versioning of the storage account which app engine uses to try to ensure that only a single version of the file is available to be served - still no use.
The command I'm using to deploy is:
run: "gcloud app deploy app.yaml --quiet --promote --no-cache"
I can't understand why it should be so difficult to simply deploy a new version of the app and have the app engine serve the latest files; I must be doing something wrong but cannot see what.
Would appreciate any pointers.
The files are cached (even if for a short while and sometimes it takes time to clear it).
The trick is to make the urls (for the static files) unique for each deployment. This way, the browser is loading a 'distinct' url after each deployment. For example, you could append the environment variable, CURRENT_VERSION_ID to the url for all static elements. This means having something like (assuming Python/Jinja2)
src="/static/js/my_js_file.js?{{CURRENT_VERSION_ID}}"
os.environ['CURRENT_VERSION_ID'] changes for each deployment. There's a possibility this attribute is not available in newer runtimes. If so, just dump the environment variables and look for an attribute that is always present but the value changes (e.g. GAE_INSTANCE).
You could also just generate a random number each time your App is deployed and use that instead i.e.
src="/static/js/my_js_file.js?{{RANDOM_NUMBER}}"

Google App Engine: connection interrupted while running gradle appengineDeploy and now application will not work (including firebase cloud messaging)

While I was deploying my google app engine project (Java) using gradle appengineDeploy my internet connection was interrupted.
I re-deployed the project. Although the console said BUILD SUCCESSFUL, the app engine instance no longer works. No matter how many times I re-deploy or update my application, the logs show nothing but errors:
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/google/appengine/api/ThreadManager
at
com.google.api.control.extensions.appengine.GoogleAppEngineControlFilter.createClient
(GoogleAppEngineControlFilter.java:61) at
com.google.api.control.ControlFilter.init (ControlFilter.java:141) at
org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.FilterHolder.initialize
(FilterHolder.java:139) at
org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.initialize
(ServletHandler.java:873) at
org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletContextHandler.startContext
(ServletContextHandler.java:349) at
org.eclipse.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext.startWebapp
(WebAppContext.java:1406) at
com.google.apphosting.runtime.jetty9.AppEngineWebAppContext.startWebapp
(AppEngineWebAppContext.java:175) at
org.eclipse.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext.startContext
(WebAppContext.java:1368) at
org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.doStart
(ContextHandler.java:778) at
org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletContextHandler.doStart
(ServletContextHandler.java:262) at
org.eclipse.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext.doStart
(WebAppContext.java:522) at
com.google.apphosting.runtime.jetty9.AppEngineWebAppContext.doStart
(AppEngineWebAppContext.java:120) at
org.eclipse.jetty.util.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start
(AbstractLifeCycle.java:68) at
com.google.apphosting.runtime.jetty9.AppVersionHandlerMap.createHandler
(AppVersionHandlerMap.java:240) at
com.google.apphosting.runtime.jetty9.AppVersionHandlerMap.getHandler
(AppVersionHandlerMap.java:178) at
com.google.apphosting.runtime.jetty9.JettyServletEngineAdapter.serviceRequest
(JettyServletEngineAdapter.java:120) at
com.google.apphosting.runtime.JavaRuntime$RequestRunnable.dispatchServletRequest
(JavaRuntime.java:747) at
com.google.apphosting.runtime.JavaRuntime$RequestRunnable.dispatchRequest
(JavaRuntime.java:710) at
com.google.apphosting.runtime.JavaRuntime$RequestRunnable.run
(JavaRuntime.java:680) at
com.google.apphosting.runtime.JavaRuntime$NullSandboxRequestRunnable.run
(JavaRuntime.java:872) at
com.google.apphosting.runtime.ThreadGroupPool$PoolEntry.run
(ThreadGroupPool.java:270) at java.lang.Thread.run (Thread.java:748)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException:
com.google.appengine.api.ThreadManager at
java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass (URLClassLoader.java:381) at
com.google.apphosting.runtime.ApplicationClassLoader.findClass
(ApplicationClassLoader.java:135) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass
(ClassLoader.java:424) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass
(ClassLoader.java:357)
Is there some way for me to clear out the partial build (or whatever there may be) in google app engine?
I tried deleting all versions and instances (you cannot delete them all, it won't let you delete the serving one).
I tried increasing the version number in appengine-web.xml.
I tried gradle clean.
I tried disabling and enabling the application in the google cloud console.
No luck.
One idea I have is maybe if I can somehow force all the files for the app to be uploaded again? Because with gradle appengineDeploy only the changed files get uploaded.
EDIT:
I managed to fix one part of this by upgrading classpath 'com.google.cloud.tools:appengine-gradle-plugin:2.2.0' in my gradle to the latest version. (Felt kind of hackish to do that and not reliable in the future if this happens again.) Maybe this flushed whatever was in app engine or something by doing that. I still have one problem remaining:
I am using the firebase admin SDK to send firebase cloud messages (authenticated with a .json credentials file) like this:
FirebaseMessaging.getInstance().send(msg);
When I do I am getting this error:
com.google.firebase.messaging.FirebaseMessagingException: Unexpected
HTTP response with status: 401; body: null
Which is strange because other parts of the firebase admin SDK are working (like writing/reading from firestore).
So there is still something weird going on and I think it has to do with the fact that as I was uploading my google app engine project the connection was interrupted.
EDIT 2:
Here is something interesting: When I deploy my application using gcloud app deploy appengine-web.xml the application again will not work. Deploying with gradle appengineDeploy does though. I also noticed that the size of the application is shown as much smaller in the GCP console when deploying with gcloud app deploy appengine-web.xml. So something is messed up here. I tried looking up some sort of gcloud command to clear cache? Or something like that but no luck.
EDIT 3:
Additional Info:
My app was already deployed and working before the failed attempt. I changed one small piece of code in a function and upon uploading the app, the connection was interrupted because the internet went out.
I am on app engine standard environment.
I am deploying my application from the macOS terminal and using android studio to develop.
I have tried the stopPreviousVersion promote and version configs in gradle (actually the first two are true by default and version gets auto-generated if you do not set it).
Running gcloud app deploy appengine-web.xml --verbosity=debug shows a lot of sensitive information but one thing I am seeing is all the files in WEB-INF are being skipped:
DEBUG: Skipping upload of [WEB-INF/....
INFO: Incremental upload skipped 100.0% of data
DEBUG: Uploading 0 files to Google Cloud Storage
DEBUG: Using [16] threads
So perhaps files are not all being uploaded? This SO post raises a similar problem but has no solution: stackoverflow.com/q/42137452/3075340
It's weird but when I do gcloud app deploy, the app won't work at all. There are run-time errors all over the place. Doing gradle appengineDeploy fixes that but I still am having the firebase-admin issue.
To actually answer your question, GAE uses a staging bucket to cache files.
You can delete this bucket, and it will get recreated next time you try to deploy.
The bucket is always named staging.[PROJECT-ID].appspot.com. It should show on the buckets overview page
Just to be clear, I'm not anywhere near sure that this will actually resolve your issue, but this will most definitely clear whatever files GAE cached
Here there was a discussion on a, more or less, similar issue on App Engine from last year.
You can use it as a source of inspiration to fix your current issue, because I think they are really similar as a concept. From there I think it may worth trying to put the appengine-api-1.0-sdk-1.9.63.jar ( or whatever your version is ) file under WEB-INF/lib.
It the same post there were some guys who found out the there was a problem with gcloud v194 and switching to another version fixed the issue.
Here there is a similar issue which was resolved by upgrading the gcloud tool.
Anyhow, this behaviour is not normal and things should not work like this. You can try to find a workaround, but my recommendation is to report the issue and let an App Engine engineer taking a look over it. There are good chances to be something internal.

Can't deploy to app engine standard with gcloud components 272.0.0

I haven't changed any of my yaml files for weeks. Doesn't matter if I'm trying to push my go services or python. Has anyone seen this error? Note: It doesn't instil confidence that my production apps are being deployed with something called "experiments.yaml".
gcloud app deploy myApp.yaml -v v0-11-09 --project=myProject
ERROR: (gcloud.app.deploy) Failed to parse YAML from [gs://runtime-builders/experiments.yaml]: mapping values are not allowed here
in "<file>", line 2, column 14
make: *** [deploy] Error 1
Update: This only occurs with the newest version of gcloud components (272.0.0)
I just reverted to the previous version (271.0.0) and all is well again. Is there a way to report this as a bug to Google? I'm not currently paying for support but would like to help the Google team if I was allowed to.
Having the same issue here.
As of now, the only way is to revert to an older version.
gcloud components update --version=271.0.0
As of 1.55PM(PDT), it seems to be fixed on the latest version. You can update to the latest again!

Google App Engine Source Not Updating PHP

I cannot get my server code to update. I'm running a PHP instance on GAE and no matter what I do, the files won't update. In the source code view, I can see the files have updated, but when I attempt to access the updated file, I'm still viewing the old version. I've also attempted disconnecting my Bitbucket repo and using the appcfg.py update project-name command, but the files aren't refreshing when I attempt to access them. I'm not sure what to do to force the changes to take place.
My app.yaml contains the following code
- url: /(.+\.php)$
script: \1
secure: always
So the files should be getting read, right?
I was able to figure out what went wrong. I downloaded my code using appcfg.py download_app -A <your_app_id> -V <your_app_version> <output-dir> and noticed that I was downloading the old versions of the files (and wasn't downloading the new files). Turns out using source control within GAE will upload new code, but won't deploy it. I attempted to use appcfg.py update project-name one more time, but it didn't work. Turns out I didn't disconnect my Bitbucket account (could have sworn that I did...). Once disconnected, I was able to update the project using appcfg.py update project-name. While I was figuring this out, I reached out to Google support and received this message:
To use the feature of push to deploy you need to spin-up the Jenkins
Instance on GCE (Google Compute Engine) and then it will take the
updated code and execute it in the environment. Go through [1] for how
to enable the Jenkins instance and its configuration according to
different run time.
In your issue, you just mirrored the code from Bit Bucket to Cloud
Repository, as it is just doing the version control for the
application not executing the application. So basically you have have
the option of using Jenkins instance as I described above to test the
different version of the code or using the appcfg.py update command
from your local repository.
I haven't attempted to install and use Jenkins since I fixed it after disconnecting my Bitbucket account), but it may help others who have run into this problem.

Pycharm Run server error no app.yaml file at '.' for google app engine project

I'm pretty new with Pycharm and since this morning i have tried different configuration to use the Run command with an existing Google app engine project but without success.
I have a pretty clear error :)
google.appengine.tools.devappserver2.errors.AppConfigNotFoundError: no app.yaml file at '.'
Nothing wrong with that because the existing project use a custom file call app_dev.yaml. So it's normal that Pycharm is unable to load the server.
How can i change this behaviour and tell Pycharm to use app_dev.yaml instead of app.yaml?
Is it possible?
Thanks
I input an app.yaml on root directory and reloading my project, this working for me.
While the PY-9714 issue was, indeed, closed without a resolution, the automatic '.' added to the Run configuration has been reconsidered in PY-10675 in light of GAE support for multiple modules/services inside the same application and/or request routing using a dispatch.yaml file.
So in the more recent PyCharm versions it's possible to specify one or more .yaml files as options in the Run configuration. See for an example Pycharm multiple modules Run server
For those still running an older Pycharm version without the fix, a solution using a wrapper script is described in Run App Engine development server with modules in PyCharm

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