How can I exclude a file from deploy in gcloud?

Question

I have built a Node.js app and what I do to deploy is cd into my project\'s directory and run gcloud preview app deploy. This works, but in the fil

Answer 1

There is skip_files directive in your app.yaml to exclude paths or files you do not want deployed.

But If you are working on a node.js project you would have to use .gcloudignore file which will specify which directories to exclude.

This .gcloudignore would prevent the upload of the node_modules/ directory and any files ending in ~:

  node_modules/
  *~

Reference to documentation:
1. https://cloud.google.com/sdk/gcloud/reference/topic/gcloudignore
2. https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/nodejs/config/appref (search 'skip_files')