Google Cloud Platform Local Development

This demo project demonstrating how to work GCP products using Python in dev env offline without need of internet.

You will find examples of using:

• Datastore
• Cloud Storage
• Firestore
• Cloud Tasks
• Cloud Scheduler

The project

This is a very basic project where the POST /item creates an Item in the Datastore, then schedule backgroud Cloud Tasks to update Firestore and generate a CSV that is uploaded to Cloud Storage.

The project structure consists in:

• main.py where the HTTP handlers for the endpoints are located
• services.py for the business rules
• gcp_utils a package with helper methods related to Google Cloud Patform products

List of APIs:

Running the project locally

At the first time running the project run the command:

$ make build

Then you can start and stop the local dev running:

$ make up
$ make down

Run make help in order to get the available commands

$ make help

Once the project is running check out http://localhost:8080/docs and play with the avaliable APIs.

Deploying to GCP

$ make gcp-connect
$ make gcp-deploy
$ gcp-browse