Hey Mister Guru, The subreddit is not actively monitored by Cloud Platform Community Support as far as I know, so it's natural that it'd be quite inactive. However, we do actively monitor:
* this forum and a handful of other Google Groups related to the Cloud Platform, * a whole lot of relevant tags on Stack Overflow <http://stackoverflow.com> / Severfault <http://serverfault.com>, and * a bunch of Public Issue Trackers (App Engine <https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/list>, Cloud Platform <https://code.google.com/p/google-cloud-platform/issues/list>, Google Cloud SDK <https://code.google.com/p/google-cloud-sdk/issues/list>, Cloud SQL <https://code.google.com/p/googlecloudsql/issues/list>, BigQuery <https://code.google.com/p/google-bigquery/issues/list>, to name a few) So you definitely aren't alone if you want to discuss high level and general topics, get help with technical questions, or report issues (to go in order of the above by their purposes). As far as deploying WAR files, you can deploy *unpacked *war files (a war folder) using the appcfg <https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/java/tools/uploadinganapp> tool. In getting used to the platform in general, you should make use of the mountains of documentation on all kinds of topics that you might want to learn about. For someone new to the platform, I'd recommend going through some tutorials <https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/java/gettingstarted/introduction>, or reading some of the main docs from the side-bar of the docs site. I hope this has been a helpful introduction to the community at a glance and a quick response to your question about maven deployments and war files. Let me know if there's anything else I can help with! Cheers, Nick Cloud Platform Community Support On Monday, April 4, 2016 at 10:18:31 AM UTC-4, Mister Guru wrote: > > I'm trying to do some research on GAE - I've inherited the responsibility > of maintenance of the infrastructure, and to my delight, (or horror, > depending on how you see it), not much documentation existed regarding > setup, configuration etc. This means that I have to take the time to learn, > document, and script using GAE. > > I checked out reddit - https://www.reddit.com/r/gae/ - Which made me very > sad, I was hoping for a vibrant community of users. > > I'm not a developer, I'm a system admin person - the one thing that is > grinding my gears at the moment, is deployments. > > I'm a little upset that I can't just go <here GAE this is a new .war - Go > run it> From what the devs have told me, deployments are integrated into > Maven build process ... already I was like ... *huh* - I don't even know > what that means. anyway, I digress, > > I'd like to know *Is the only way to deploy to GAE via the maven build > job*? It would be a 'shame' if that's the case, but as I'm not up to > speed with how java apps are suppose to work, best practices and such, I'm > not sure if I'm the one looking at it incorrectly. I've also got a few > other questions, but I'm testing the water with this first. I could easily > run our workloads on Kubernetes or Mesos, so I'm judging GAE purley on the > people who use it! (very professional and scientific, I know!) > > If there are any other devops guys in here specifically working on > deployments and scripting around GAE, I would like to have a word with you > - maybe exchange ideas etc > > Thanks, > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-appengine/f25cb2f9-4245-4f5f-b12c-ddfd0b93d732%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
