LONG time to deploy into flexible hosting environment

[Andrew Rea]

I have downloaded both the GOLANG and the Python examples for the flexible hosting environments, using the gcloud application and setting vm: true inside the app.yaml.

With Python

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It takes around 10 minutes to deploy.  You see all the logs until it gets to the "Updating Service" and then no more feedback apart from a 10 minute wait until it succeeds

With GO

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It takes around 10 minutes and then it fails saying that there was an error deploying, the app code may not be in a healthy state. 

My question is, why does the deployment to the Flexible Hosting Environment take so long and is there anything I can do to make it takes seconds rather than minutes?

thanks