Is there way to specify more resources for Google App Engine during build stage?

Krishna Sunuwar

5/22/24, 11:23 AM

Let me start with context. I have react app that takes around 8192MB to during build. Deployment to GAE has been failing as fax memory we can have is 3072 MB (using instance_class: F4_1G).

I was wondering we can we specify more resources during build on GAE deployment? After build app can run in smaller server like F2 (768 MB).

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DominicT

5/24/24, 6:46 PM

I would suggest to use the Google App Engine Flex Flexible Environment. This has an option to configure all the resource settings in app.yaml.

For example you can check this configuration:

resources:
  cpu: 2
  memory_gb: 2.3
  disk_size_gb: 10
  volumes:
  - name: ramdisk1
    volume_type: tmpfs
    size_gb: 0.5

You can increase your memory_gb, cpu, and disk_size_gb.

To learn more about app.yaml configuration file check this documentation

Hope it helps

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Krishna Sunuwar

5/25/24, 4:04 AM

Hi thanks for answer. Let me explain my need 1) higher resources during build, 2) normal server like F1 or F2 after deployment.

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Krishna Sunuwar

5/25/24, 5:42 AM

Seems GAE doesn't have option to define higher resources during build and change that after. Besides that GAE is max F4_1G (3072 MB, 2.4 GHz). So I decided on a different approach.

Use cloud build to build (where we can provision machines with higher resources)
on app.yaml, override standard npm build with blank.

So my cloudbuild.yaml looks like:

    steps:
      - name: 'node:14.21-buster'
        entrypoint: 'npm'
        args: ['install']
      - name: 'node:14.21-buster'
        entrypoint: 'npm'
        args: ['run', 'build']
        env:
          - NODE_OPTIONS=--max-old-space-size=8192
          - GENERATE_SOURCEMAP=false

      .... MORE STEPS HERE .....

      - name: 'gcr.io/cloud-builders/gcloud'
        entrypoint: 'gcloud'
        args: ['app', 'deploy']

    substitutions:
      _CLOUDSDK_COMPUTE_ZONE: us-central1-c
      _CLOUDSDK_COMPUTE_REGION: us-central1

    options:
      machine_type: E2_HIGHCPU_8

app.yaml looks like:

    runtime: nodejs14
    build_env_variables:
      GOOGLE_NODE_RUN_SCRIPTS: '' # prevent running npm run build on GAE
    entrypoint: node server/server.js

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