Guide to modern app-hosting without servers on Google Cloud

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PM2

There's also a CommonJS version, index.js for those who prefer it. With either version, app instantiation is followed by the GET handler returning "Hello World!". The rest sets up the server on the designated PORT and exports the app. Unlike Flask, the Express server is much more performant and can be used in production, perhaps with the help of tools like cluster and PM2.

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nginx

When ready to go live, switch from the Flask devserver to something more production-worthy, such as Gunicorn, uWSGI, nginx, or uvicorn.

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Gunicorn

However, here and commented out but not available in the GAE app's requirements.txt, is Green Unicorn (gunicorn), an HTTP web server. GAE is pure PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service), but GCR, along with any container-based cloud service, is one step down, in-between PaaS and IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service).

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Docker

The other config files specify how the app should be containerized, started, and deployed to the cloud. That's the reason why none of them were used to run the app locally just a moment ago. (There is another way to run it locally, with the help of Docker, and we'll take a look at that shortly.) The .*ignore files for this app filter out content that doesn't have anything to do with an app's functionality:.

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Google Cloud SQL

Your app must be stateless. Don't use embedded databases. When your users hit your app again, they may be reaching another instance in a completely different state. Persist data in cloud-based storage like GCS, Cloud SQL, or Cloud Firestore.

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Google Cloud SDK

The gcloud CLI comes with the Cloud SDK (software development kit). If it's already installed, skip to the next section. New to GCP? Follow the instructions to install the SDK and learn a few gcloud commands. If you just want to install the SDK, see these instructions. After installation, run gcloud init to initialize it.

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Firestore

Your app must be stateless. Don't use embedded databases. When your users hit your app again, they may be reaching another instance in a completely different state. Persist data in cloud-based storage like GCS, Cloud SQL, or Cloud Firestore.

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Google App Engine

If Google App Engine (GAE) is the "OG" serverless platform, Cloud Run (GCR) is its logical successor, crafted for today's modern app-hosting needs. GAE was the 1st generation of Google serverless platforms. It has since been joined, about a decade later, by 2nd generation services, GCR and Cloud Functions (GCF). GCF is somewhat out-of-scope for this post so I'll cover that another time.

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