Django / Managed VM - Migrate DB with deploy

[Aaron Madison]

I'm looking to switch from AWS to GCP with Managed VMs, CloudSQL, and Django and have a question on deployment.

With our AWS Elastic beanstalk we include some config in out .ebextensions:

container_commands:
	01_upgrade:
	command: "/opt/python/run/venv/bin/pip install -r requirements.txt --upgrade"
	02_syncdb:
	command: "/opt/python/run/venv/bin/python manage.py syncdb --noinput"
	leader_only: true
	03_migrate:
	command: "/opt/python/run/venv/bin/python manage.py migrate --noinput"
	leader_only: true
	04_collectstatic:
	command: "/opt/python/run/venv/bin/python manage.py collectstatic --noinput"

Is there an equivalent when deploying with `gcloud preview app deploy`?

In the interim I've ran the migration connecting my machine to the remote database, but that can run very slow.

Thanks for any direction,

~ aaron

[Adam (Cloud Platform Support)]

You can achieve the same thing using a Dockerfile on Managed VMs (now called App Engine Flexible Environment). Check out the example Dockerfile from the getting-started-django project, and the docs for Custom Runtimes for more info.