Deployed Flask App to Google App Engine with Troubleshooting

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📅 2024-02-19 — Session: Deployed Flask App to Google App Engine with Troubleshooting

🕒 00:15–01:15
🏷️ Labels: Google App Engine, Flask, Deployment, Troubleshooting, Cloud Computing
📂 Project: Dev
⭐ Priority: MEDIUM

Session Goal

The goal of this session was to successfully deploy a Flask application to Google App Engine (GAE) and address any deployment issues that arose.

Key Activities

  • Deployment Process: Followed guides to deploy applications on GAE using both standard and flexible environments, utilizing configuration files such as app.yaml and Dockerfile.
  • Flask Deployment: Executed specific steps for deploying a Flask application, including pre-deployment checks and post-deployment testing with a friend’s user.
  • Secret Management: Integrated Google Cloud Secret Manager for handling sensitive data within the application, ensuring proper API enablement and secret access in the code.
  • URL Sharing: Shared the deployed application’s URL for external testing.
  • Troubleshooting: Addressed application access issues post-deployment, focusing on HTTP 503 errors and ensuring all dependencies were correctly listed in requirements.txt.

Achievements

  • Successfully deployed the Flask application to GAE.
  • Identified and resolved multiple deployment issues, including HTTP 503 errors and dependency misconfigurations.
  • Updated requirements.txt to include necessary packages for Gunicorn deployment.

Pending Tasks

  • Monitor the deployed application for any further errors or performance issues.
  • Conduct additional testing to ensure all functionalities are working as expected.

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