Move to app engine flex

[ebidel]

Scale + speed + uptime!

Here's what I'm using in other projects. Dockerfile

FROM node:9.5-slim

MAINTAINER Eric Bidelman <ebidel@>

# See https://crbug.com/795759
#RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -yq libgconf-2-4

# Install latest chrome dev package and fonts to support major charsets (Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, Hebrew, Thai and a few others)
# Note: this installs the necessary libs to make the bundled version of Chromium that Puppeteer
# installs, work.
RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y wget --no-install-recommends \
    && wget -q -O - https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | apt-key add - \
    && sh -c 'echo "deb [arch=amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google.list' \
    && apt-get update \
    && apt-get install -y google-chrome-unstable fonts-ipafont-gothic fonts-wqy-zenhei fonts-thai-tlwg fonts-kacst ttf-freefont \
      --no-install-recommends \
    && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* \
    && apt-get purge --auto-remove -y curl \
    && rm -rf /src/*.deb

# It's a good idea to use dumb-init to help prevent zombie chrome processes.
ADD https://github.com/Yelp/dumb-init/releases/download/v1.2.0/dumb-init_1.2.0_amd64 /usr/local/bin/dumb-init
RUN chmod +x /usr/local/bin/dumb-init

COPY . /app/

WORKDIR /app

COPY package.json .
RUN yarn --production

COPY server.mjs .
# RUN chmod +x server.mjs

# Add user so we don't need --no-sandbox.
RUN groupadd -r pptruser && useradd -r -g pptruser -G audio,video pptruser \
    && mkdir -p /home/pptruser/Downloads \
    && chown -R pptruser:pptruser /home/pptruser \
    && chown -R pptruser:pptruser /app

# # Run everything after as non-privileged user.
USER pptruser

EXPOSE 8080

ENTRYPOINT ["dumb-init", "--"]
CMD ["npm", "run", "start"]

app.yaml

runtime: custom
env: flex

automatic_scaling:
  min_num_instances: 1
  max_num_instances: 4

resources:
  cpu: 4
  memory_gb: 16 # cpu * [0.9 - 6.5] - 0.4
  disk_size_gb: 100

skip_files:
- ^(.*/)?tests
- ^(.*/)?.*\.md$

[PaulKinlan]

App engine flex costs way more than zeit... it also deploys slower....

[PaulKinlan]

Also, this assumes that we are not caching the entire imported docker file... technically there should be no reason to ever to do anything before "RUN yarn --production" again....