Deploying .NET 6 Workload To Google App Engine Flexible Environment

Introduction

In this article, we will learn more about the following features of Google App Engine.

What is Google App Engine
Features of GAE
Compute engine vs GAE comparsion
App Engine Environments
App Engine scaling
Deploy .NET 6 workloads to GAE

What is App Engine

Google App Engine lets app developers build scalable web and mobile backends in any programming language on a fully managed serverless platform.

Supports

GO,Java,.NET Node JS, Python, and Ruby using pre-configured Runtime.
Use custom runtime(Containers) and write code in any language.
Easy connectivity with cloud services (Cloud SQL etc.)

No Usage Charges

Pay for use(Automatically scales depending on app traffic)

Features

Automatic load balancing and Auto scaling
Managed platform updates and application health monitoring
Application versioning
Traffic Splitting

Compute Engine Vs. App Engine

Compute Engine

IAAS
More flexibility

More Responsibility

Choose Image,
Hardware,
Availability
Fine grain access controls

App Engine

PAAS
Serverless
Lesser Responsibility
Lesser Flexibility

App Engine Environments

Standard - Application runs in language specific runtime

Complete isolation from OS.DISK

V1:Java,Python,PHP,GO(Older versions)

Restricted network access for python and PHP runtime

V2:Java,Python,PHP,GO(newer versions)

Full network access and no restrictions.

Flexible: Run Application instances as Docker containers

Makes use of compute engine VM in
Supports any runtime with built-in support for Python,Java,Node.js,Go,Ruby,PHP,.NET

App Engine Scaling Instances

Automatic - Scale based on Instance load

Continuously running workloads

Auto Scale based on

CPU Utilization
Throughput utilization
Concurrent Users

Basic - Instances are created when requests are received

Instances are shut down to Zero When there is no traffic
Not supported by APP Engine flexible

Manual - configure the number of Instances

Adjust number of instances manually over a period of time.

Google App Engine Flexible Environment

Deploying .NET 6 Workloads to GAE

Prerequisites

Google free tier or paid account.
Basic knowledge of using Google cloud services.
Create Docker images and deploy them to the Google container registry https://www.c-sharpcorner.com/article/how-to-create-docker-image-of-net-6-workloads-and-push-it-to-google-container-r/

Deploy Application image to GAE

gcloud app deploy --image-url=gcr.io/buildcustomimage/custom-image:0.1

Note
Google app engine API and App Engine Admin API must be enabled. App engine account must have access to Google container Registry.

Navigate to the Google App engine, and you will see a new default service created,

Google App Engine Flexible Environment

To get Application Url

gcloud app browse.

Summary

In this article, we have learned how to flexibly deploy .NET 6 workloads to GAE.

In the upcoming articles, we will see how to deploy .NET 6 workloads to GKE.

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