Updating this thread, so that if someone ends up on this thread looking a deployment API to enable deployment to multiple customers..
> Ideally, there would be a deployment API, and even better, an appengine > 'app store' where apps customers or appengine customers can shop for apps > and click to deploy to their own appengine instances. > I think this would be a big hit - especially with open source software. A > one-click install could give a Google account user their own hosted blog, or > todo list, or mini-CRM, or whatever. ..they are most likely looking for a Marketplace for Google App Engine apps<http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=5821> . Don't forget to star this feature request, if you would provide a "one-click install" for your customers. Thanks & Regards, Raj On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 11:03 AM, nik cubrilovic <nik...@gmail.com> wrote: > Is there any plan to provide a deployment API? Let me give you an idea of > the scenario. I build an application, for example a CMS for small to medium > businesses. Instead of hosting a single large instance that is multi-homed > for each customer, I deploy the application by setting up an appengine > account for each customer, or they provide the credentials, and I then > deploy the application along with their configuration to their appengine > instance (or apps for domain). > > At the moment, I could mimick this by proxying the auth and forms and then > wrapping appcfg.py, or digging into the python SDK and finding the modules > and methods that appcfg.py uses for deployment. > > Ideally, there would be a deployment API, and even better, an appengine > 'app store' where apps customers or appengine customers can shop for apps > and click to deploy to their own appengine instances. > > I think this would be a big hit - especially with open source software. A > one-click install could give a Google account user their own hosted blog, or > todo list, or mini-CRM, or whatever. > > What is the best way to achieve this atm? I think it would be interesting > if a user lands on my site, decides that they would like to try out the > application, and within an oauth request and a click (where they specify the > appid they wish to use) my server can deploy the application for them. > > Apologies if this is already out there somewhere in some form, I searched > but couldn't find any mention of anything specific like this > > Cheers, > Nik > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google App Engine" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-appengine/-/HB5ryYbpFnAJ. > To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. > -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Build online database applications, over Google App Engine. iFreeTools Creator - http://creator.ifreetools.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
