Django sample for Google App Engine Flexible Environment

This is a basic hello world Django example for Google App Engine Flexible Environment.

Running locally

You can run locally using django's manage.py:

$ python manage.py runserver

Deployment & how the application runs on Google App Engine.

Follow the standard deployment instructions in the top-level README. Google App Engine runs the application using gunicorn as defined by entrypoint in app.yaml. You can use a different WSGI container if you want, as long as it listens for web traffic on port $PORT and is declared in requirements.txt.

How this was created

This project was created using standard Django commands:

$ virtualenv env
$ source env/bin/activate
$ pip install django gunicorn
$ pip freeze > requirements.txt
$ django-admin startproject project_name
$ python manage.py startapp helloworld

Then, we added a simple view in hellworld.views, added the app to project_name.settings.INSTALLED_APPS, and finally added a URL rule to project_name.urls.

In order to deploy to Google App Engine, we created a simple app.yaml.

Database notice

This sample project uses Django's default sqlite database. This isn't suitable for production as your application can run multiple instances and each will have a different sqlite database. Additionally, instance disks are ephemeral, so data will not survive restarts.

For production applications running on Google Cloud Platform, you have the following options:

• Use Cloud SQL, a fully-managed MySQL database. There is a Flask CloudSQL sample that should be straightfoward to adapt to Django.
• Use any database of your choice hosted on Google Compute Engine. The Cloud Launcher can be used to easily deploy common databases.
• Use third-party database services, or services hosted by other providers, provided you have configured access.