Google App Engine: Traffic

Question 1

What does App Engine consider a ‘version’?

Answer 1

Every time you redeploy your application with changes made

Question 2

What are the 3 major options for splitting traffic?

Answer 2

• IP Address
• Cookie
• Random

Question 3

By default, where does google automatically redirect 100% of its traffic to?

Answer 3

The newest version

Question 4

How can we fetch an environment variable?

Answer 4

Using the getenv() function in the os module

Question 5

How do we fetch the instance ID

Answer 5

Use the getenv() function with ‘GAE_INSTACE’ as a parame

Question 6

How do we fetch the current version?

Answer 6

Use the getenv() function with ‘GAE_VERSION’ as a parameter to store it in a variable