If you haven't already make sure you are familiar with Custom Runtimes in the App Engine Managed VM documentation.

You must have the Google Cloud SDK, with the Managed VM component installed. We will assume that the SDK is available on your command line as $ gcloud.

You must also install Docker on your workstation, as the SDK uses it to build, test and deploy your application. Refer to the Managed VM documentation for more information on how to install Docker for your environment.

This is a minimal managed VM runtime that runs the nginx server. It implements the two required handlers (/_ah/start and /_ah/health) as static pages and illustrates the files necessary to run a custom runtime.

app.yaml - Configuration file for App Engine. Dockerfile - Defines your docker image. index.html - Root page to be served by nginx. nginx.conf - nginx configuration file. ok - File content served by start and health handlers.

First, make sure Docker has been started on your workstation. Refer to the Managed VM documentation for more information on how to do this for your environment.

Then, to run locally:

$ gcloud preview app run /path/to/appengine-nginx-hello

This will build the nginx docker image and run it locally. You can access it at http://localhost:8080.

To deploy to App Engine:

$ gcloud preview app deploy /path/to/appengine-nginx-hello

This will build the nginx docker image and deploy it to App Engine.

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