Create Django Superuser in GAE Flexible

[Mike Hardy]

Hi There, I've been scouring the internet trying to figure out how to create a Django superuser in GAE Flexible environment, but there aren't many answers, so it leads me to believe that it is very simple and I am just completely lost. Can some kind soul tell me where/how to createsuperuser?

Thanks!
Mike

[Kenworth (Google Cloud Platform)]

You can find the details of how to "createsuperuser" here. 

[Mike Hardy]

Thanks for the reply. That's for creating the superuser on your local machine. How do you createsuperuser on the deployed version?

[Kenworth (Google Cloud Platform)]

qq: What is your Database? Is it Google Cloud SQL? Can you try "manage.py remote createsuperuser" as per this docs?

[Mike Hardy]

Thanks Kenworth. Yes, we're using Cloud SQL. The djangoappengine package hasn't been maintained in multiple years. I don't know that that's something we want to add to our project. Surely there is a simple way to SSH into the GAE instance and run a command or some other method?

[Kenworth (Google Cloud Platform)]

1- You can SSH on a GAE Flex instance for debugging purposes by going to your Console > App Engine > Instances > Select SSH on the selected instance.

2- Since the last possible solution offered is not feasible for you, can you detail why would you want to "createsuperuser" on the first place. If your intention is to create a "power user", you can create a root level user on your DB like this StackOverflow thread. If you want a "grant all" permission, this will not work because Cloud SQL does not support "super" privileges as documented here.

3- In addition to #2, provide the versions of your Django, Cloud SQL, and Google Cloud SDK.

[Attila-Mihaly Balazs]

One other option is to use the Cloud SQL Proxy [1] to connect from your local machine to the Cloud SQL instance in production and then you could run locally whatever command you need (create super user, etc).

Regards,
Attila

[1] https://cloud.google.com/sql/docs/mysql/connect-admin-proxy

[de...@unnotech.com]

This worked for me. We need to do `docker ps` to see the container that has the django container