Installing a 3rd party deb in App engine ?

[Aswath Muralidharan]

Hi

I'm new to app engine. I want to install a 3rd party software which provides cli tools for my cron job. 

I understand GAE is nearly stateless . But I don't want to give up without a proper opinion from peers 

Is it possible ? How can I do that in app engine?

Thanks 

M.Aswath

[George (Cloud Platform Support)]

Hello Aswath, 

You are right, you cannot install software in GAE, as local system is not accessible, or writes are not persistent. Which environment do you refer to: Standard or Flexible?

In fact, you don't need to organize your own cron system, you can simply use Cloud Scheduler, a solution made for GAE, which does not require such set up effort as you seem to plan for. 

By contrast, you can do whatever you please and install your debs on a VM instance in Compute Engine.