gcloud alpha app

NAME
gcloud alpha app - manage your App Engine deployments
SYNOPSIS
gcloud alpha appGROUP |COMMAND[GCLOUD_WIDE_FLAG …]
DESCRIPTION
(ALPHA) The gcloud app command group lets you deploy and manageyour Google App Engine apps. These commands replace their equivalents in theappcfg tool.

App Engine is a platform for building scalable web applications and mobilebackends. App Engine provides you with built-in services and APIs such as NoSQLdatastores, memcache, and a user authentication API, common to mostapplications.

More information on App Engine can be found here:https://cloud.google.com/appengineand detailed documentation can be found here:https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/

EXAMPLES
To run your app locally in the development application server to simulate yourapplication running in production App Engine with sandbox restrictions andservices provided by App Engine SDK libraries, use thedev_appserver.py command and your app'sapp.yamlconfiguration file to run:
dev_appserver.py~/my_app/app.yaml

For an in-depth look into using the local development server, follow this guide:https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/python/tools/using-local-server

To deploy the code and configuration of your app to the App Engine server, run:

gcloudalphaappdeploy~/my_app/app.yaml

To list all versions of all services of your existing deployments, run:

gcloudalphaappversionslist
GCLOUD WIDE FLAGS
These flags are available to all commands:--help.

Run$gcloud help for details.

GROUPS
GROUP is one of the following:
domain-mappings
(ALPHA) View and manage your App Engine domain mappings.
ssl-certificates
(ALPHA) View and manage your App Engine SSL certificates.
COMMANDS
COMMAND is one of the following:
migrate-to-run
(ALPHA) Migrate a second-generation App Engine app to Cloud Run.
update
(ALPHA) Updates an App Engine application.
NOTES
This command is currently in alpha and might change without notice. If thiscommand fails with API permission errors despite specifying the correct project,you might be trying to access an API with an invitation-only early accessallowlist. These variants are also available:
gcloudapp
gcloudbetaapp

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Last updated 2026-02-10 UTC.