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Migrating from App Engine to Google Kubernetes Engine

by coderholic on 9/27/21, 3:07 PM with 10 comments

• by breput on 9/29/21, 1:44 AM

  I would be interested in seeing this type of article for migrating an established App Engine "standard" environment application instead of the "flexible" environment, which is basically managed containers.

  The first-generation standard App Engine service was/is a PaaS environment that provided a lot of functionality on top of the basic load balancing servers, such as an automatically high availability distributed NoSQL datastore, memcache, task queues, mail services, cron, and some special libraries. So migrating off of this involves not just the infrastructure but also a considerable amount of re-implementing equivalent services.

• by jamesvnz on 9/29/21, 1:19 AM

  Rather surprised they didn't migrate from App Engine to Cloud Run. This would seem like the simpler and more direct migration path.