As DeWitt mentioned, currently our median deployment time for production goes around 6 minutes as it is working as intended on the flexible environment. There has been some additional work and testing done for faster deployment for development purposes.
The updated workflow("in-place version updates") to provide faster deployment when developing an application for the Flexible environment is described in the comment of 2/12/18 from DeWitt. For ease of reading here is the transcript of the workflow: "To perform an in-place update, please pass the --version flag to the deploy command and specify the version you would like to deploy over. Additionally, you’ll likely want to prevent that version from becoming the default, so be sure to include the --no-promote flag. For example: $ gcloud app deploy --version <your-existing-version-here> --no-promote We recommend you use this flow only for development purposes, and continue to deploy full versions for any production traffic." - Should you like to go further into the GCLB deployment speed, I invite you to open another Groups <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/google-appengine> discussion with your details regarding the GCLB and reference this thread, as it will be easier to follow through the new one as the previous comment here mostly pertains to the slow deployment on the flexible environment for developing purposes and has been addressed here as explained above. You would also be able to file a Feature Request <https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/new?component=187191&template=1162953> as well directly should you want to see the current deployment speed improved. Providing the use case and the details for the slow deployment in the feature request will be needed for the engineering team to review for implementation. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-appengine/60d22c21-2aa8-496b-9b03-713513af8d70%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.