MeteorApp - Meteor Runtime for App Engine

Requirements

• Docker
• Google Cloud SDK
• App Engine Component

Getting started

Setup

Add the following Dockerfile into the root of your app:

FROM tastytoast/meteorapp:build

Make sure your app has a valid app.yaml file. It should look something like the following:

runtime: custom
vm: true
api_version: 1

handlers:
  - url: .*
    script: dynamic

env_variables:
  NODE_ENV: production
  ROOT_URL: http://[my-project-id].appspot.com
  MONGO_URL: mongodb://mymongourl

This file sets two very important environment variables. ROOT_URL and MONGO_URL. The ROOT_URL variable is the domain of the app. (In this case, it's App Engine's default domain.) MONGO_URL is the url of your MongoDB database. This image currently. You can set up your own MongoDB cluster on the Google Cloud Platform or use a managed service like MongoLab

You will also need to make sure your app is responding to App Engine's health checks. You can disable this by adding the following to your app.yaml file

health_check:
  enable_health_check: False

Deploy to App Engine

Deploy with the following command

gcloud preview app deploy app.yaml

This will create a new version of your app. You deploy to the default version with the --set-default command.

gcloud preview app deploy app.yaml --set-default

###Known Issues Currently you must handle App Engine's health checking in your app. You can disable this in app.yaml. A future version of this image will automatically handle these checks for you.

Websockets are disabled by default until a better solution can be found. You can get this to work with a static IP and setting up port forwarding in your app.yaml. Make sure you enable websockets.

network:
  forwarded_ports: ["3000"]

env_variables:
  DISABLE_WEBSOCKETS: 0