How to deploy a flexible app to a preemptible VM?

Randy Sugianto 「Yuku」

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Sep 28, 2016, 9:32:50 AM9/28/16

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I just tried the Flexible version of app engine, and I like it because with 0.05 USD per hour I can get 1 core and almost 4 GB of RAM, much higher than with a B1 instance (600MHz CPU and 128 MB of RAM only!).

Then I know that Google also offers Preemptible VMs with cost only 0.01 USD/hour for the same spec! I guess my app engine app is very suitable to use preemptible VMs.

However I can't find a way to do so. Is there anything in the app.yaml file that I should put so that the app will be deployed to a preemptible VM instead of a normal one?

Miguel Vitorino

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Sep 28, 2016, 3:07:09 PM9/28/16

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Hi Randy,

I don't believe that you can use Preemptible VMs yet. But it would surely make sense since these in the flex environment should be disposable

But I wouldn't get too excited about the current flex pricing as there have been hints that pricing may change for GA to consider the added value of GAE on top of GCE or GKE.

Adam (Cloud Platform Support)

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Oct 1, 2016, 4:55:21 PM10/1/16

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It's not currently supported, but it would be a good feature to request on the Google App Engine issue tracker.

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