Google App Engine Flexible environment deployment failed using Google Cloud SDK from WINDOWS OS 10

Question

My production site developed in CodeIgniter Frame work, It has more than 10k files, I deployed last week successfully without any issues. Today My deployment got failed, I just corrected one query in script.

I got the below issues

C:\myproject>gcloud app deploy --version 13 app.yaml
Services to deploy:

descriptor:      [C:\myproject\app.yaml]
source:          [C:\myproject]
target project:  [xyz]
target service:  [uat]
target version:  [13]
target url:      [https://uat-dot-xyz.appspot.com]


Do you want to continue (Y/n)?  Y
    Beginning deployment of service [uat]...
    #============================================================#
    #= Uploading 0 files to Google Cloud Storage                =#
    #============================================================#
    File upload done.
    ERROR: (gcloud.app.deploy) INVALID_ARGUMENT: This deployment has too many files. New versions are limited to 10000 files for this app.
    - '@type': type.googleapis.com/google.rpc.BadRequest
      fieldViolations:
      - description: This deployment has too many files. New versions are limited to 10000
          files for this app.
        field: version.deployment.files[...]

I referred the below SO posting

gcloud app deploy failed because deployment has too many files for PHP CodeIgnitor files

gcloud app deploy: This deployment has too many files Approaches for overcoming 10000 file limit on Google App Engine?

Communicating between google app engine services

I enabled.gcloudignore file as per the below and created in myproject

https://cloud.google.com/sdk/gcloud/reference/topic/gcloudignore

How to include files in.gcloudignore that are ignored in.gitignore

C:\>gcloud config set gcloudignore/enabled true
Updated property [gcloudignore/enabled].

C:\>gcloud config list
[accessibility]
screen_reader = False
[compute]
region = region-name
zone = zone-name
[core]
account = xyz@domainname.com
disable_usage_reporting = True
project = xyz
[gcloudignore]
enabled = true

My current Cloud SDK version is: 320.0.0

Installing components from version: 320.0.0

I could not find the solution. Why suddenly My deployment failed Using Gcloud SDK to GAE flexible environment ( Note: My project has more than 10 k files, Upto Last week I didnt get this issue)

Plz, Help me to solve this issue, If I miss anything in this, Thanks in Advance.

Answer 1

It looks that there was a change on the way App Engine deploy the files.

Running the command gcloud config set app/trigger_build_server_side false solved the issue

Now on Dec 15 this change seems to be reverted and normal deploys should be working as before