Migrating to the gcloud CLI
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The standalone App Engine SDK was deprecated as of July 30, 2019, and it is
now shut down. The following table lists features and their recommended
alternatives:
July 30, 2019: The standalone App Engine SDK-based tooling is
deprecated.
August 30, 2020: The standalone App Engine SDK is not available for
download and might not work, if used.
August 30, 2020: Google shut down and removed support for the standalone
App Engine SDK.
Backward non-compatible features
As a result of the shutdown of the appcfg tool and the standalone
App Engine SDK, the following features are currently not supported in
gcloud CLI:
- Downloads of your application's source code with AppCfg.
- App Engine Launcher
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Last updated 2025-03-05 UTC.
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