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Create a Python app in the App Engine flexible environment Region ID

The REGION_ID is an abbreviated code that Google assigns based on the region you select when you create your app. The code does not correspond to a country or province, even though some region IDs may appear similar to commonly used country and province codes. For apps created after February 2020, REGION_ID.r is included in App Engine URLs. For existing apps created before this date, the region ID is optional in the URL.

Learn more about region IDs.

Note: If you are deploying a new Python web service to Google Cloud, we recommend getting started with Cloud Run.

This quickstart demonstrates how to create and deploy an app that displays a short message. You can use the sample application in this quickstart for any supported version of Python, by specifying the runtime version and operating system in your app.yaml file.

Before you begin
  1. Sign in to your Google Cloud account. If you're new to Google Cloud, create an account to evaluate how our products perform in real-world scenarios. New customers also get $300 in free credits to run, test, and deploy workloads.
  2. In the Google Cloud console, on the project selector page, select or create a Google Cloud project.

    Note: If you don't plan to keep the resources that you create in this procedure, create a project instead of selecting an existing project. After you finish these steps, you can delete the project, removing all resources associated with the project.

    Go to project selector

  3. Verify that billing is enabled for your Google Cloud project.

  4. Enable the Cloud Build API.

    Enable the API

  5. Install the Google Cloud CLI.

  6. If you're using an external identity provider (IdP), you must first sign in to the gcloud CLI with your federated identity.

  7. To initialize the gcloud CLI, run the following command:

    gcloud init
  8. Due to changes in the default behavior for how Cloud Build uses service accounts in new projects, and secure-by-default organization policy changes, you might need to grant additional roles to your deploying service account. For more information on granting specific roles, see the troubleshooting guide.
Additional prerequisites
  1. Initialize your App Engine app with your project and choose its region:

    gcloud app create --project=[YOUR_PROJECT_ID]
    

    When prompted, select the region where you want to locate your App Engine application.

    Caution: You cannot change an app's region once it has been set.
  2. Install the following on your local machine:

  3. Prepare your environment for Python development. It is recommended that you have the latest version of Python, pip, and other related tools installed on your system. For instructions, refer to the Python Development Environment Setup Guide.

App Engine locations

App Engine is regional, which means the infrastructure that runs your apps is located in a specific region, and Google manages it so that it is available redundantly across all of the zones within that region.

Meeting your latency, availability, or durability requirements are primary factors for selecting the region where your apps are run. You can generally select the region nearest to your app's users, but you should consider the locations where App Engine is available as well as the locations of the other Google Cloud products and services that your app uses. Using services across multiple locations can affect your app's latency as well as its pricing.

You cannot change an app's region after you set it.

Note: Two locations, which are called europe-west and us-central in App Engine commands and in the Google Cloud console, are called europe-west1 and us-central1, respectively, elsewhere in Google documentation.

If you already created an App Engine application, you can view its region by doing one of the following:

This quickstart demonstrates the latest Python 3 app written with the Flask web framework that can be deployed to App Engine. Although this sample uses Flask, you can use any web framework that satisfies the requirements above. Alternative frameworks include Django, Pyramid, Bottle, and web.py. Download the Hello World app

We've created a Hello World app for App Engine so you can quickly get a feel for deploying an app to the Google Cloud.

  1. Clone the Hello World sample app repository to your local machine.

    git clone https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/python-docs-samples
    

    Alternatively, you can download the sample as a zip file and extract it.

  2. Change to the directory that contains the sample code.

       cd python-docs-samples/appengine/flexible/hello_world
    
Run Hello World on your local machine

To run the Hello World app on your local computer:

Mac OS / Linux Note: These instructions describe how to set up a virtual environment in Python 3. For Python 2 apps, use virtualenv to set up a virtual environment.
  1. Create an isolated Python environment:
    python3 -m venv env
    source env/bin/activate
  2. If you're not in the directory that contains the sample code, navigate to the directory that contains the hello_world sample code. Then install dependencies:
    cd YOUR_SAMPLE_CODE_DIR
    pip install -r requirements.txt
  3. Run the application:
    python main.py
  4. In your web browser, enter the following address:
    http://localhost:8080

    If you are using Cloud Shell, in the toolbar, click Web Preview and select Preview on port 8080 instead.

Windows Note: These instructions describe how to set up a virtual environment in Python 3. For Python 2 apps, use virtualenv to set up a virtual environment.

Use PowerShell to run your Python packages.

  1. Locate your installation of PowerShell.
  2. Right-click on the shortcut to PowerShell and start it as an administrator.
  3. Create an isolated Python environment.
    python -m venv env
    .\env\Scripts\activate
  4. Navigate to your project directory and install dependencies. If you're not in the directory that contains the sample code, navigate to the directory that contains the hello_world sample code. Then, install dependencies:
    cd YOUR_SAMPLE_CODE_DIR
    pip install -r requirements.txt
  5. Run the application:
    python main.py
  6. In your web browser, enter the following address:
    http://localhost:8080

The Hello World message from the sample app displays on the page. In your terminal window, press Ctrl+C to exit the web server.

Deploy and run Hello World on App Engine To deploy your app to the App Engine flexible environment:
  1. Deploy the Hello World app by running the following command from the hello_world directory:

    gcloud app deploy

    Learn about the optional flags.

    Common gcloud command flags

    Example:

    gcloud app deploy --version pre-prod-5 --project my-sample-app

    To learn more about deploying your app from the command line, see Testing and Deploying Your App . For a list of all the command flags, see the gcloud app deploy reference.

  2. Launch your browser to view the app at https://PROJECT_ID.REGION_ID.r.appspot.com

    gcloud app browse
    where PROJECT_ID represents your Google Cloud project ID.

This time, the page that displays the Hello World message is delivered by a web server running on an App Engine instance.

Congratulations! You've deployed your first App Engine app to the App Engine flexible environment!

If you encountered any errors deploying your application, check the troubleshooting tips.

See the following sections for information about cleaning up as well as links to possible next steps that you can take.

Clean up

To avoid incurring charges, you can delete your Google Cloud project to stop billing for all the resources used within that project.

    Caution: Deleting a project has the following effects:

    If you plan to explore multiple architectures, tutorials, or quickstarts, reusing projects can help you avoid exceeding project quota limits.

  1. In the Google Cloud console, go to the Manage resources page.

    Go to Manage resources

  2. In the project list, select the project that you want to delete, and then click Delete.
  3. In the dialog, type the project ID, and then click Shut down to delete the project.
What's next Learn the whole platform

Now that you know what it's like to develop and deploy App Engine apps, you can explore the rest of Google Cloud. You already have the Google Cloud CLI installed which gives you the tools to interact with products like Cloud SQL, Cloud Storage, Firestore, and more.

Learn about the App Engine flexible environment

Here are some topics to help continue your learning about App Engine:

Hello World code review

Hello World is the simplest possible App Engine app, as it contains only one service, has only one version, and all of the code is located within the app's root directory. This section describes each of the app files in detail.

main.py

The Hello World app is a basic one-file Flask app.

app.yaml

The app.yaml file describes the following configuration for your app:

Note: This is the simplest way to get gunicorn running. However this approach runs the application with a single blocking worker, which means all HTTP requests are handled in serial, including health checks. In practice, this results in the application becoming unresponsive in the event of slow requests. For more details on how to configure gunicorn for production, see Recommended gunicorn configuration requirements.txt

requirements.txt and the Python package manager pip declare and install application dependencies. Hello World requires Flask, a web framework, and Gunicorn, a WSGI server.

requirements.txt defines the libraries that will be installed both locally and when deploying to App Engine.

Except as otherwise noted, the content of this page is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License, and code samples are licensed under the Apache 2.0 License. For details, see the Google Developers Site Policies. Java is a registered trademark of Oracle and/or its affiliates.

Last updated 2025-08-07 UTC.

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