How to serve Google Cloud Storage images?

Question

I want google.appengine.ext.blobstore and google.appengine.api.images to work outside of App Engine. Do these modules require App Engine in order t

Answer 1

The blobstore and images APIs are available only within the App Engine runtime environment. To run them inside compute engine you can:

• Run them inside Managed VMs (the GAE runtime environment on GCE)

• Run them on your own infrastructure or GCE using a GAE API emulator (such as AppScale)

• Use public APIs (such as Google Cloud Storage) instead

Some App Engine services (such as Datastore) now also expose public APIs that you can use from GCE.