Setting up your development environment

Use the following steps to set up your local environment for developing and deploying your App Engine services:

  1. Install and initialize the gcloud CLI for deploying and managing your apps. If you already have the gcloud CLI installed and initialized, run the gcloud components update command to update to the latest release.

    By downloading, you agree to be bound by the Terms that govern use of the gcloud CLI for App Engine.

  2. Install Docker To locally test and run your App Engine custom runtime apps.

  3. Don't forget to set up your environment. For example, install a version of your custom runtime and your preferred tooling.

Optional tools:

Install Git for access to code, samples, libraries, and tools in the Google Cloud GitHub repository.