How can I download source code?

[Torsten Därr]

Hi, I'm not a developer or programmer. A developer I hired has uploaded the source code of a website into my Google cloud account. I think he used an external place for the repository. Where and how can download the source code of that website from my Google cloud account? Many thanks, Torsten

[Kamran (Google Cloud Support)]

There are different computing service options in Google Cloud Platform that can be used for deploying a web application. Some of these options are: Google App Engine, Google Compute Engine and Google Container Engine. For App Engine applications, you can follow instructions of this article to download the source code. For applications that are deployed on Compute Engine or Container Engine, with help of a developer you can inspect your VMs to find out the location of source codes to clone it. You can also check if your developer uploaded the source code to Cloud Source Repositories by going to your Cloud Console > Source Repositories -> Source code or Repositories.

However, your best option to find and download the source code is contacting your developer to get a copy of the code or find out which service is used to deploy your website. 

[Torsten Därr]

The company that wrote the application is not responding so I need to find another way to get access to the source code. How is it possible that the site is hosted in my Google cloud account bu the source is stored in another location? If the site is hosted in my account, this means that my server has access to the remote site where the source is stored. Otherwise the site wouldn't be working. So, how do I extract the source code from that other location? 

[Navi Aujla (Google Cloud Support)]

Hello Torsten 

It is not clear which platform service (GAE, GCE or GKE) was used to implement the application, and where the code was uploaded. Kamran provided the possibilities of where source code may be have been uploaded to the Google Cloud platform in his last message. The developer/company who worked on your project can provide more information and assist you in providing the source code.

Thanks