Switching from Backends to Modules

[Joshua Smith]

I have a process I need to let run longer than 10 minutes, and I have been using “backends” for this.

I saw the deprecation warning, so I decided to try making it into a module instead. The documentation on this is a complete mess. Hey google: You need to go clean this up. There are a whole lot of different pages that describe bits and pieces of the puzzle, but I can’t find anything that tells me what I actually need to do. It doesn’t help that backends became modules became services. SMDH.

Anyway, I found the article that told me how to generate a .yaml for my module based on my old backends.yaml and my app.yaml. My module is called “reporting” so I have reporting.yaml.

After making that and deleting my backends.yaml, I clicked deploy on the GAE launcher, but that didn’t do anything about my module.

So I guess I need to run appcfg.py manually? But I have no idea what arguments to give it.

I just want to push the latest code up, and then I will hit the module with a URL.

I used to do this with: appcfg.py backends <dir> update

What command should I issue to get the same result with my “reporting” module?

-Joshua

[Vitaly Bogomolov]

Hi Joshua.

 

Anyway, I found the article that told me how to generate a .yaml for my module based on my old backends.yaml and my app.yaml. My module is called “reporting” so I have reporting.yaml.

I used to do this with: appcfg.py backends <dir> update

What command should I issue to get the same result with my “reporting” module?

 appcfg.py update <dir>app.yaml <dir>reporting.yaml

WBR, Vitaly

[Adam (Cloud Platform Support)]

In your case to deploy the 'reporting' service you would use:

appcfg.py update <dir>/reporting.yaml

You can list any number of .yaml files for services to deploy after 'appcfg.py update'. The usage is given in the documentation under Deploying multiple service applications.

[Joshua Smith]

Thanks. I did eventually find that.

Google cloud is getting to be a lot like Microsoft. Everything is documented, but there are so many docs it’s impossible to find what you are looking for.

On Feb 24, 2017, at 4:20 PM, 'Adam (Cloud Platform Support)' via Google App Engine <google-a...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

In your case to deploy the 'reporting' service you would use:

appcfg.py update reporting.yaml

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[Attila-Mihaly Balazs]

+1 - this!

There is a lot of documentation, and a lot of it is outdated, with links to missing pages :(

Attila