Deploy node.js app in Google App Engine using Github Action

This project demonstrate how to deploy node.js sample app in Google App Engine using Github Action

🚀 Features

• ✨ Google cloud acount setup
• ⚡ App Engine
• 🔒 How to deploy node app from local

🛠 Tech Stack

• Node.js
• Express
• Google Cloud(App Engine)

🧑‍💻 Local Setup

• Enable App Engine, App Engine Admin API, Cloud Build
• Create a service account(with permission App Engine Admin, Cloud Build Editor, Storage Admin, Service Account User), create a key, download the key in local
• In Google Cloud console select App Engine and create application in any region(this is one time activity and has to do manually)
• Add GitHub Secrets to your repo: Repo → Settings → Secrets and variables → Actions → New repository secret as GCP_SA_KEY = contents of key.json (JSON string)
• Create a simple node.js app with app.yaml
• Create a .github/workflows/deploy.yml file in root of your node app
• When you push to GitHub, app will be deployed to App Engine

📦 Installation

# Clone the repo
git clone https://github.com/rupachowrasia/gcp-app-engine-deploy-with-github-action-using-nodejs.git

# Move into the project directory
cd gcp-app-engine-deploy-with-github-action-using-nodejs

# Install dependencies
npm install

# Run the app
npm run start