gcloud app deploy failed with error - gcloud crashed FileNotFoundError - python3 app

Question

I am trying to deploy a sample python app which I got from another tutorial. However, the deployment fails as below:

gcloud app deploy Beginning deployment of service [default]... ERROR: gcloud crashed (FileNotFoundError): [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/Users/nileshdeshmukh/Desktop/Training/Python/FlaskIntroduction-master/env/.Python'

My app.yaml file is as below:

runtime: python3
env: standard

runtime_config:
  python_version: 3

I have all dependencies copied in env/bin but the build process is looking for env only..

I think the problem would be solved if the deployment process looks at env/bin, but don't know how to force it to look at given path

Answer 1

The runtime_config setting is for App Engine flex only and isn't needed for App Engine Standard. You can safely remove it.

As per the error, you should ensure that all your dependencies are self-contained and shipped with your app or listed in your requirements.txt file.

Answer 2

Be careful, some gcloud commands use .gitignore file to prevent sending useless file to Cloud for building your app.

You can override this behavior by creating a .gcloudignore file. Same syntax as git ignore but take into account only by gcloud commands and not by git. By the way you can differentiate the file to send to the cloud and file to send to git