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[Andrew Jessup]

Hello!

Earlier in the year we added remote builds to Managed VMs, which uses a transient GCE VM to build and package your application in Google Container Registry, prior to deploying it to App Engine.

We’ve been working hard to improve this functionality, and today we’re pleased to announce an alpha release of a new build backend for Managed VMs that is purpose-built for building applications quickly and reliably. 

Since this back-end doesn’t rely on creating GCE VMs in your project, it has some advantages. 

• It is generally faster (since we don’t need to create a VM ahead of time), and
  
• Doesn’t add transient GCE VMs for building to your project, and 
  
• It doesn’t consume GCE usage quotas (such as network per project)
  

We will be improving the performance of this service even more over the next few months.

To get started with this API, you must be whitelisted to use the service, which you can request by completing this form. Whitelisting is conducted on a per-user basis. Once you have been whitelisted we will e-mail you instructions on how to get started with the service. If you’d like to learn more about this service, feel free to reach out to me directly.

Thanks,

The App Engine Team

[Rif Kiamil]

Hi Andrew,

Any news on getting on this?