Application Data Center/Zone

[Miguel Vitorino]

Hi,

How is possible to know the current Zone (as in: us-central1-a, b, f) where an AppEngine application is currently running?

Cloud SQL allows us to specify that its location should follow an AppEngine app, but for general GCE instances there isn't a similar option (since they obviously aren't managed so static to one zone...)

We would like to create GCE instances in the same zone as the app to reduce latency.

One way we thought of was to start one instance in each zone and then test the latency but we would naturally prefer a simpler approach to find this out...

[Vinny P]

On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 7:00 AM, Miguel Vitorino <mvit...@gmail.com> wrote:

How is possible to know the current Zone (as in: us-central1-a, b, f) where an AppEngine application is currently running?

Cloud SQL allows us to specify that its location should follow an AppEngine app, but for general GCE instances there isn't a similar option (since they obviously aren't managed so static to one zone...)

Some runtimes (I'm not sure if all runtimes support this) can supply a name of the hosting datacenter. For example, in Go you can call appengine.Datacenter() and get back a string similar to us3.

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-Vinny P

Technology & Media Consultant

Chicago, IL

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[Miguel Vitorino]

Thanks Vinny, I didn't know and will definitely take a look at that.

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[Miguel Vitorino]

We never seem to get anything other than us3. And couldn't find a correlation with us-central1-a, b, etc.

Thanks anyway Vinny.

Miguel Vitorino