gcloud app deploy : This deployment has too many files

Question

I got the below error, when I tried to deploy my GAE app through gcloud.

Updating service [default]...failed.                                                         


        

Answer 1

Few things:

1. Sometimes the static folder can get a bit messy. Try deleting it and rerunning python manage.py collectstatic, this cut down about 2000 files for me.
2. Make sure your .gcloudignore file ignores the assets folder, given they've just been moved to static.
3. Ignore virtualenv folders, they're big