Heroku node.js app to Google cloud with Firebase

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Alexander Cohen

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Hello, I have a firebase app that uses some backend services written in node.js that live on heroku. I’m wondering if there is a tutorial of some kind of help docs that might point me in the right direction on how I could migrate the heroku app to Google Cloud.

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Alex

Kato Richardson

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Sep 1, 2016, 12:05:16 PM9/1/16

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Hi Alexander,

I don't think there's anything to do to migrate. The only real differences I can think of are in the deploy process. The primary difference being that you deploy from your local file base rather than pushing to github to deploy.

This is where I learned Node.js with GCP and I highly recommend it as a primer: https://cloud.google.com/nodejs/

One caveat not given enough emphasis in the doc for me was that, during development, GCP creates a new instance each time you deploy (by default) and you get charged for all of them. To avoid this, you want to find the version number of your GAE instance:

And then deploy using this format:

gcloud app deploy --version 20160720t225848

But other than the general deploy process, and how you configure auto-scaling, everything runs pretty close to the same, in my opinion.

☼, Kato

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Alexander Cohen

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Thanks Kato. I’ll read through all the info and try it out. Do you know if GCP instances are blocked form within China?

On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 12:04 PM, Kato Richardson' via Firebase Google Group <fireba...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Hi Alexander,

I don't think there's anything to do to migrate. The only real differences I can think of are in the deploy process. The primary difference being that you deploy from your local file base rather than pushing to github to deploy.

This is where I learned Node.js with GCP and I highly recommend it as a primer: https://cloud.google.com/nodejs/

One caveat not given enough emphasis in the doc for me was that, during development, GCP creates a new instance each time you deploy (by default) and you get charged for all of them. To avoid this, you want to find the version number of your GAE instance:

And then deploy using this format:
gcloud app deploy --version 20160720t225848
But other than the general deploy process, and how you configure auto-scaling, everything runs pretty close to the same, in my opinion.

☼, Kato

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Hello, I have a firebase app that uses some backend services written in node.js that live on heroku. I’m wondering if there is a tutorial of some kind of help docs that might point me in the right direction on how I could migrate the heroku app to Google Cloud.

regards,
Alex

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Kato Richardson

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Google has a full transparency report here. I can't add anything that you won't be able to read there, unfortunately.

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Thanks Kato. I’ll read through all the info and try it out. Do you know if GCP instances are blocked form within China?

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On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 12:04 PM, Kato Richardson' via Firebase Google Group <firebase-talk@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Hi Alexander,

I don't think there's anything to do to migrate. The only real differences I can think of are in the deploy process. The primary difference being that you deploy from your local file base rather than pushing to github to deploy.

This is where I learned Node.js with GCP and I highly recommend it as a primer: https://cloud.google.com/nodejs/

One caveat not given enough emphasis in the doc for me was that, during development, GCP creates a new instance each time you deploy (by default) and you get charged for all of them. To avoid this, you want to find the version number of your GAE instance:

And then deploy using this format:
gcloud app deploy --version 20160720t225848
But other than the general deploy process, and how you configure auto-scaling, everything runs pretty close to the same, in my opinion.

☼, Kato

On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 2:31 PM, Alexander Cohen <naf...@me.com> wrote:

Hello, I have a firebase app that uses some backend services written in node.js that live on heroku. I’m wondering if there is a tutorial of some kind of help docs that might point me in the right direction on how I could migrate the heroku app to Google Cloud.

regards,
Alex

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