Your first steps with App Engine

Objective of the article: to be able to take your first steps in App Engine.

Summary of Previous Episode: In Episode 1, we saw a detailed overview of the App Engine service. If you haven’t read it yet, I advise you to start there 👉 Let’s discover Google Cloud Platform tools. In this article we will go into the topic of App Engine in more detail.

The lab

For this lab, you will play as a developer with a genius idea and you want to get started without spending too much. We will take an example of code: beware, this one is ultra complex 😉 and see how to deploy it on App Engine in order to take advantage of Google’s expertise on the infrastructure, which allows you to stay focused on your project .

We will first deploy a Go application which, for version v1, will upload a happy “hello, world :)”. Then we will see how to version our application in order to facilitate version upgrades.

Code presentation

Here is the revolutionary code to display the message “hello, World!” to people who visit our app.