Cron jobs don't get updated after deploying a new version - google-app-engine

The problem is that I try to delete, or update the cron job and nothing gets updated on the google side.
gcloud app deploy cron.yaml - I sent an empty file with only cron: in there, and it still displays old cron jobs.
I then tried to update the cron jobs to new settings, and it still displays old information.
Either the documentation doesn't give you the correct directions how to manage cronjobs or I must be doing something extremely wrong.
Solution
Needed to specify the project to deploy to: gcloud app deploy cron.yaml --project=my-project

Needed to specify the project to deploy to: gcloud app deploy cron.yaml --project=my-project

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How to increase gcloud app deploy timeout in 2021

There are many answers to this question already, but they no longer work here in January 2021. All those answers come in 3 flavors:
Set local machine timeout with something like gcloud config set app/cloud_build_timeout 1600 then deploy with gcloud app deploy ...
Use a cloudbuild.yaml file instead with timeout: 1600s bits in the gcloud app deploy buildstep and the global configuration, then deploy with gcloud builds submit ...
Per google's own docs, don't set timeout: 1600s in the cloudbuild file, but rather do a mashup of the previous 2 flavors with a build step including args: ['-c', 'gcloud config set app/cloud_build_timeout 1600 && gcloud app deploy']
None of them have any impact on the app deploy build - it's stuck at 10mins. When using gcloud builds submit, it results in 2 Cloud Builds being kicked off: one for the cloudbuild.yaml, and one for the app engine deployment using buildpack. The above solutions can impact the first build, but once that first build kicks off the second build (gcloud app deploy, you can see at https://console.cloud.google.com/cloud-build in the Execution Details tab that the Timeout is still 10m.
IMO, solutions 2-3 are hacks since 1 doesn't work, but now that 2-3 don't work either, I'm looking for another hack. Does anyone have a solution which works in 2021? Since my app is using GAE Standard Environment, I can't prebuild an image - I'm stuck with Buildpack building my ruby app and pulling all the Gems every time, and this runs out the seemingly immutable 10m clock.
You cannot change the timeout property in App Engine standard and it's always 10min. The workaround is to use App Engine flex and this way you can use the gcloud config set app/cloud_build_timeout TIME_SECONDS.
There is a feature request to enable timeout edit for App Engine standard but seems still in progress.

Google Cloud Platform: Updating a project after deployment

I am using Google Cloud to deploy my application. I have followed the steps in the documentation for deploying. I deployed early on in my project and it was successful. I then decided to change some files and update some features in my app. For this i followed the documentation for updating a deployment. This update was successful. It had me create the deployment in my Deployment Manager and run the gcloud commands to commence update. When I redeployed with gcloud app deploy, it was successful.
I have since added a couple more lines of code and features in my application. I followed the same documentation for updating a deployment as I had the first time I made an update and it is no longer working for me.
Does anybody have any idea what would be the problem? Again, I was able to successfully deploy, and even update that deployment once by following Google Cloud docs. Now I am having no luck.
Have you been changing the version number? Go to:
https://console.cloud.google.com/appengine/versions?project=< your project name >&serviceId=default
And make sure the version you want is active. Also, you can try:
http://<VERSION>-dot-<SERVICE>-dot-<PROJECT_ID>.<REGION_ID>.r.appspot.com
Example:
https://20200813-dot-myapp.uc.r.appspot.com
if the version number was 20200813 and your appname is myapp and the region is uc

Google App Engine: Build Timed Out during Deployment

Edit: Google Cloud at its finest. Made absolutely no changes but deployed fine this morning.
Error after ~10m of deployment (10+ deploy attempts).
I've changed the app to add a simply function with less than 10 lines of code. It has no affect on libraries and uses native python only and hence I'm not sure how it can affect the deployment.
I've tested the app and it runs fine locally.
Here is the error that I get:
ERROR: (gcloud.app.deploy) Cloud build failed. Check logs at
https://console.cloud.google.com/xxxxxxxx/ Failure status: UNKNOWN:
Error Response: [4] DEADLINE_EXCEEDED
Previously to that, logs don't show any errors, in fact everything is going as expected.
Newest entries first:
9302e2430a0e: Pushed
4f56eb74b6bf: Pushed
21df82f90a72: Layer already exists
f0e2b3558b28: Layer already exists
99c71ba2c817: Layer already exists
2483da9621d1: Layer already exists
af09d2110abe: Layer already exists
d968669f4b42: Pushed
4b1e707066a6: Layer already exists
55530b72c8c8: Layer already exists
62c169a7d462: Layer already exists
According to this you can change the build timeout setting with:
gcloud config set app/cloud_build_timeout 1000
Setting it to 1000 seconds in this example.
I have this problem too when deploying my custom image to AppEngine flex. My image requires a few ML models and takes around 2 hours to build and GAE does not seem to like it.
To build your container images outside of Google Cloud Platform, you must first upload your images to a container image repository before you can deploy your images to App Engine with the gcloud app deploy command.
In short, push your image to Google Container Registry or container image repository of your choice, then deploy with this command
gcloud app deploy --image-url gcr.io/YOUR_PROJECT_ID/YOUR_CONTAINER_IMAGE
More info here and here
For my case, I've found out the problem was that I have the same version for all gcloud app deploy command.
When there's traffic, the deployment will timeout.

Cron Jobs on Google App Engine

Am I able to check Cron Jobs when App is deployed?
Locally it is: localhost:8000/cron
I was guessing maybe my-service.my-app.appspot.com/cron, but didn't work.
No. But you can check them in your admin console:
https://console.cloud.google.com/appengine/taskqueues?project=my-app&tab=CRON
As per Seraf own anser, you have to run
gcloud app deploy cron.yaml
in order to upload cron tasks, as per:
https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/flexible/python/scheduling-jobs-with-cron-yaml?hl=es-419#uploading_cron_jobs

gcloud deploy app does not automatically deploy index.yaml?

I used to deploy AppEngine apps with appcfg.py which, as far as I remember, was automatically deploying the index.yaml file as part of the app deployment.
Now that I'm using gcloud app deploy I've found out the hard way that I also have to run gcloud app deploy index.yaml to get the indices created.
Why was gcloud designed that way?
After indexes are uploaded, it can take a few minutes for them to actually build. While they build, any app that attempts to use those indexes will fail. The behavior in appcfg.py of uploading both at the same time can actually result in apps failing for a few minutes while the indexes build.
The behavior in gcloud app is more explicit to avoid these issues. If you are adding new indexes and new code that depends on it, you should use this procedure:
gcloud app deploy index.yaml
# wait for indexes to build
gcloud app deploy app.yaml

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