Concepts

Go Flexible Environment Concepts

• An Overview of App Engine

  An explanation of App Engine services, the building blocks of App Engine applications.

• App Engine Flexible Environment for Users of App Engine Standard Environment

  An introduction to the flexible environment for those who are familiar with the standard environment, highlighting the similarities and key differences, and providing general architectural recommendations for applications that use both environments.

• The Go Flexible Environment

  A description of the Go flexible environment for App Engine and how it works.

• How Requests are Routed

  How HTTP requests from users and other applications can be routed using dispatch files.

• How Requests are Handled

  How requests to your application are understood and handled within App Engine.

• How Instances are Managed

  How Google manages the health checks, uptime, restarts, and location of your instances.

• Access Control

  Set access control using roles at the project level.

• The App Engine Flexible Environment Service Account

  Understand the service account for the App Engine flexible environment.