trueCii/chuck-norris-app-engine

GCP App Engine Example

chuck-norris-app-engine

A flask application that displays random chuck norris facts

Prerequisites

• Create a GCP Project
• Install the Google Cloud SDK

Documents

• Google App Engine (Python)
• Chuck Norris API
• Flask: Flask is a micro web framework written in Python
• app.yaml: app.yaml configuration file

Applications

• Minimal flask application displaying random chuck norris facts

App Engine Folder structure

• app.yaml
• templates/
• static/
• main.py
• requirements.txt

Details

1. app.yaml: Deployment descriptor for your application
2. templates/: This is where you’ll put the Jinja2 templates for your app.
3. static/: This directory contains the public CSS, JavaScript, images and other files that you want to make public via your app.
4. main.py: Python file that has the application logic
5. requirements.txt: This file lists all of the Python packages that your app depends on.

Deploying the application to App Engine

Navigate to the directory and run the following command -> gcloud app deploy

View the Web Application

gcloud app browser