Run on local AppEngine

[Burtan]

Hey,

please add a task that uses the cloud tools emulators to run the project on your local computer. You could make some tasks to start them yourself, but I didn't find an easy way yet to get the environment variables into the gradle run task yet, besides copying them manually which is cumbersome as the ports vary.

[elefeint]

The plugin's appengineRun task launches the local dev server, which includes some built-in emulators.

Do you need emulators beyond those?

[Burtan]

Hi, sorry I didn't specify the environment enough.

When using app engine standard for java 11 there is no appengineRun task. I guess it is only for the old java 8 runtime. That's why you need the new beta emulators from gcloud.

[elefeint]

@ludoch Is there a recommended way to use emulators in the newer AppEngine runtimes?

One way would be to take advantage of the testcontainers gcloud project.

[Burtan]

Any news on this?