Will the task queue ever be accessible outside of App Engine?

[Derek Perkins]

The App Engine task queue is fantastic and a vital part of our entire system setup. We need to have some more control over pieces of our architecture and run our own GCE instances outside MVMs. Is there a chance that the task queue will be made available outside the GAE sandbox? I've seen an alpha REST API, but that only applies to pull queues and doesn't appear to be getting much attention. I'd rather not switch to using iron.io or run my own RabbitMQ setup because the task queue has functioned flawlessly for us for 1.5 years.

[Nick (Cloud Platform Support)]

While I can't speak on roadmaps for the platform, you can certainly feel free to make a feature request for a Push Queue REST API in the public issue tracker for App Engine. As a workaround until then, you can quickly hack together a transparent API with Cloud Endpoints or another framework of your choice which allows you to hit your own App Engine app as an API and have tasks enqueued.