Create your project

To deploy your app on App Engine, you must create a Google Cloud project, which is a top level container that holds your App Engine application resources as well as other Google Cloud resources.

In this task, you create a Google Cloud project and an App Engine application to store settings, computing resources, credentials, and metadata for your app.

If you already have a Google Cloud project with App Engine and the Cloud Build API enabled, continue to Writing Your Web Service.

Create a Google Cloud project

  1. Sign in to your Google Cloud account. If you're new to Google Cloud, create an account to evaluate how our products perform in real-world scenarios. New customers also get $300 in free credits to run, test, and deploy workloads.

  2. In the Google Cloud console, on the project selector page, select or create a Google Cloud project.

    Go to project selector

  3. Make sure that billing is enabled for your Google Cloud project.

  4. Enable the Cloud Build API.

    Enable the API

  5. Install the Google Cloud CLI.

  6. If you're using an external identity provider (IdP), you must first sign in to the gcloud CLI with your federated identity.

  7. To initialize the gcloud CLI, run the following command: 

    gcloud init

  8. In the Google Cloud console, on the project selector page, select or create a Google Cloud project.

    Go to project selector

  9. Make sure that billing is enabled for your Google Cloud project.

  10. Enable the Cloud Build API.

    Enable the API

  11. Install the Google Cloud CLI.

  12. If you're using an external identity provider (IdP), you must first sign in to the gcloud CLI with your federated identity.

  13. To initialize the gcloud CLI, run the following command: 

    gcloud init

  14. Create an App Engine application for your Google Cloud project in the Google Cloud console.

    Open app creation

  15. Select a region where you want your app's computing resources located.

  16. Due to changes in the default behavior for how Cloud Build uses service accounts in new projects, and secure-by-default organization policy changes, you might need to grant additional roles to your deploying service account. For more information on granting specific roles, see the troubleshooting guide.

Next steps

Now that your Google Cloud project is set up, you're ready to write a basic web service with Node.js.