Google CloudSQL gives the option to allow it to follow an App Engine app for better performance.
How can I do the same with a Google Compute Engine instance? Otherwise what is the best Google data center to house my instance for best performance with a US based App Engine app?
Depending on what you're trying to achieve the way to go might be an app with two modules, one of which is a managed vm.
If you need a persistent disk in your managed vm you can mount cloud storage with fuse in your managed vm.
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Our project was running in GCP compute engine. For scaling purpose, it is moved to app engine. We had rabbitmq implemented for push messages and chatbots in compute engine. In app engine it is not feasible to implement rabbitmq. So I was going through alternate options. There I found cloud task option. But I have doubts in certain areas even after reading their documentation
In my understanding, we need an app engine instance for cloud tasks. In that case, can I implement it in same project itself as a different service? Will this affect the performance of the existing project?
Is there any better solution than cloud tasks in this case?
You can implement additional services under your app in the App Engine as shown in this diagram.
By default, App Engine scales your app to match the load. Your apps will scale up the number of instances that are running to provide consistent performance, or scale down to minimize idle instances and reduces costs.
You can consider running a RabbitMQ Cluster on Google Kubernetes Engine. You can find more information in the following documentation: rabbitmq.
I want to deploy and app using compute engine as my company does not provide access to app engine yet. Is there a way to deploy the same app using compute engine rather than app engine on google cloud. I have searched multiple forum but unable to find relevant answers.
Any help would be much appreciated.
With python3, I recommend you to write a Flask web application. Your web application will be similar on App Engine and on your compute.
However, you have several things to perform at the infrastructure level. I recommend you to have a look to managed Instances group with auto scaling and health check and Global load balancer.
Note: Because, it's not serverless, you have to pay at least 1 instance even if there isn't traffic on your app
Alternatively, you can have a look to GKE (easier VM management and scaling) and Cloud Run.
Im creating a Node.js website that probably won't have loads of traffic, and was looking into cheap solutions to host the site. Came across Google cloud services offering free usage for their services with limits. A f1-mirco is more than enough for my needs, but I will happily pay for some usage if it goes over by any chance.
I wanted to setup a linux centOS 7 on GCE (which I already did), and run my application and REST API on it. Now here comes the problem.
I tried to use Google's datastore service, but it sprung an app engine instance and without it datastore won't work.
Is datastore entirely relying on app engine to function?? In the docs, it said if you use any of the client API, it requires app engine. What can I do to not use the client api and query data then? Don't want to use the app engine at the moment or datastore is just not for me then?
Thanks for any help!
Some of the underlying infrastructure of Cloud Datastore and App Engine are still tied together for creation, etc. So while creating an Cloud Datastore database also defines an App Engine instance for the project, it doesn't require you to use it. You don't get charged for App Engine either, unless you decide to deploy an App using it.
You should be totally fine use the Google Cloud Node client library on the f1 micro instance.
I am very newly in google app engine.. There are three Questoins on google app engine and in google app engine i want to choose JAVA language.
Does google app engine provide private cloude ?
I want to deploy my application with my own server( E.x.glassfish or JBoss) on google app engine ?
I want to use my own database instead of cloud SQL in google app engine?
Is it possible or not?
With Google Cloud Appengine - no, it's impossible.
With Google Cloud Instances or Google Cloud Containers - all of this is possible.
Appengine is just one piece of Google Cloud, designed for very specific job, with infrastructure managed by Google. You can only write some code (with lot of restrictions too) that runs inside it. You can read some details about code restritions there: https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/java/#Java_The_sandbox
What you're looking for is Google Cloud Instances, that are more standard virtual machines, where you can run anything you want. See https://cloud.google.com/compute/
There is still tools for Load Balancing, Health Check, Centralized Logging for Cloud Instances, and other stuff similar to features provided by Appengine.
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Google App Engine communicate with Compute Engine over internal network
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It is possibile to enable HTTP traffic between App Engine and Compute Engine instances that are in the same Cloud Project?
Obviously denying all HTTP traffic from other sources.
Between AWS EC2/RDS/Beanstalk this is possibile with "security groups".
I think the best you can currently do is managed VMs (https://developers.google.com/cloud/managed-vms, early access right now). It's essentially managed VMs running custom code in the app engine project. I did not check if the managed VMs will be able to run together with other gce VMs in the same network - if they did one could just connect to the internal addresses of the other instances. There does not appear to be a configuration option to define a network so I'm leaning to guess that they won't be able to see each other on the network like that.
But as an answer to the general question, I don't think there is any way of referencing app engine runtimes as sources in gce network ACLs currently.
As of now In 2016 as google cloud has launched google cloud flexible environment appengine/docs/flexible/. So yes it is possible now because now both app engine and compute engine are present in same network and therefore using app engine you can access compute engine by using their internal Ip, also remember to delete all external firewall rules for your compute engines if you only want to allow access from app engine.
there isn't way to reference App Engine resource within GCE. If you are trying to access GCE only from App Engine app, then you could define ACL in GCE to let traffic only from your AppEngine external IP.