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App engine Hello World - Google Cloud Tutorial
From the course: Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Essential Training for Developers
App engine Hello World
- [Instructor] Now we're going to learn how to deploy a simple application into Google App Engine. App Engine supports many languages like Go, PHP, Java, Python and many more. But for this example, we are going to use Node.js. App Engine has two types of environment: standard and flexible. The main differences are listed here. The standard environment is more opinionated and optimized for running on Google Cloud. It's faster to deploy and also can scale down to zero servers. However, the trade off is it's less flexible and less portable to other platform providers outside of Google Cloud. For this example, we're going to go with standard. Here I have a simple hello world application written in Node.js. The really important files we need to have are app.yaml. App.yaml contains our App Engine specific configuration. We set the runtime property to Node.js 10, which is the specific version of Node that we're going to…
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