The App Engine flexible environment is based on Google Compute Engine and automatically scales your app up and down while balancing the load. Learn more

Guides

• Quickstart for Go in the App Engine Flexible Environment

• Setting Up Access Control

• Testing and Deploying your Application

• How Requests are Routed

• Creating Persistent Connections with WebSockets

• Serving Static Files

• Sending Messages with Third-Party Services

• Writing and Responding to Pub/Sub Messages

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Reference

• app.yaml Configuration File

• Request Headers

• dispatch.yaml Configuration File

• Scheduling Jobs with cron.yaml

• Configuring Datastore Indexes with index.yaml

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Resources

• Go release notes

• Pricing

• Quotas and limits

• Managing costs

• Troubleshooting

• Choosing an environment

• Choosing a serverless option

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Use cases

Explore use cases, reference architectures, whitepapers, best practices, and industry solutions.

Best practices

Build scalable and resilient apps

Learn patterns and practices for creating apps that are resilient and scalable, two essential goals of many modern architecture exercises. A well-designed app scales up and down as demand increases and decreases, and is resilient enough to withstand service disruptions.

Scaling Resilience Design

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Use case

Controlling Access to Websites and Apps

Learn how to control user access to enterprise web resources.

Enterprise BeyondCorp Authentication App Engine

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Article

Twelve-factor app development on Google Cloud

Describes the popular twelve-factor app methodology and how to apply it when you design apps on Google Cloud.

App Engine Cloud Source Repositories Container Registry Apigee containers microservices

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Use case

Automated Network Deployment: Building a VPN Between GCP and AWS with Terraform

Use Terraform by HashiCorp to create secure, private, site-to-site connections between Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Amazon Web Services (AWS) using virtual private networks (VPNs).

Terraform Automation Networking

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Best practice

Scheduling Memorystore for Redis database exports using Cloud Scheduler

Shows how to use Cloud Scheduler and Cloud Functions to automatically export a Memorystore for Redis database to Cloud Storage

App Engine Cloud Functions Cloud Storage

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Code samples

Dive into coding with examples that demonstrate how to use and connect Google Cloud services.

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Golang API samples

A set of code samples for Go apps in the App Engine flexible environment.

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