App Engine’s New Go 1.11 Runtime

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Post by SamWhited » Tue, Oct 16, 2018, 4:43 PM UTC

App Engine’s New Go 1.11 Runtime
blog.golang.org

Re: App Engine’s New Go 1.11 Runtime

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Post by buss » Tue, Oct 16, 2018, 4:53 PM UTC

I'm the tech lead and primary software engineer on the Go runtime. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask! I'm super thrilled to announce that Go 1.11 is now available on App Engine! We now support...

* vendoring

* regular best-practice package structures

* go modules

* the regular Google Cloud client libraries: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/google-cloud-go

This is a "second-generation" runtime (https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp/introducing-app-e...), meaning that we're now running stock Go in the gVisor sandbox (https://github.com/google/gvisor). We've removed all of the restrictions present in the old runtime, like limited socket and file access. You can even import "unsafe"!

If you're a current Go-on-App Engine customer, you should check out our migration guide at https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/go111/go-di... to learn how to migrate from the Go 1.9 runtime to the new Go 1.11 runtime. For the time being, you can still use the legacy App Engine APIs with the Go 1.11 runtime, but you should start migrating to the Google Cloud client libraries.

Re: App Engine’s New Go 1.11 Runtime

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Post by genericone » Tue, Oct 16, 2018, 4:59 PM UTC

Am I understanding this correctly, App Engine has made it so "go run goapp.go" on my local environment is basically accomplished with "runtime: goapp" in the app.yaml? No other changes necessary in the code?

Re: App Engine’s New Go 1.11 Runtime

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Post by buss » Tue, Oct 16, 2018, 5:01 PM UTC

genericone wrote: post #3

Am I understanding this correctly, App Engine has made it so "go run goapp.go" on my local environment is basically accomplished with "runtime: goapp" in the app.yaml? No other changes necessary in the code?

runtime: go111, but otherwise -- yes!

Re: App Engine’s New Go 1.11 Runtime

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Post by bpye » Tue, Oct 16, 2018, 5:03 PM UTC

This actually seemed to be live a week or two ago, I managed to run Miniflux [1] on App Engine with no changes though to get it working properly it would need it's scheduling changing.

[1] - https://github.com/miniflux/miniflux

Re: App Engine’s New Go 1.11 Runtime

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Post by lvillani » Tue, Oct 16, 2018, 5:04 PM UTC

buss wrote: post #2

I'm the tech lead and primary software engineer on the Go runtime. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask! I'm super thrilled to announce that Go 1.11 is now available on App Engine! We now support... * vendoring * regular best-practice package structures * go modules * the regular Google Cloud client libraries: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/google-cloud-go This is a "second-generation" runt…

Yes! Thanks for releasing this and making my life easier :)

I have an old app deployed to App Engine. The app itself is rock solid and chugging along fine (I touch it once a year or so), but I dreaded having to deploy it due to the lack of vendoring support and other... peculiarities of the Go runtime. Glad to see this is no longer an issue!

Re: App Engine’s New Go 1.11 Runtime

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Post by bpye » Tue, Oct 16, 2018, 5:05 PM UTC

buss wrote: post #2

I'm the tech lead and primary software engineer on the Go runtime. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask! I'm super thrilled to announce that Go 1.11 is now available on App Engine! We now support... * vendoring * regular best-practice package structures * go modules * the regular Google Cloud client libraries: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/google-cloud-go This is a "second-generation" runt…

Several of your links are broken, they have been elipsised.

Re: App Engine’s New Go 1.11 Runtime

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Oct 16, 2018, 5:08 PM UTC

bpye wrote: post #7

buss wrote: post #2

I'm the tech lead and primary software engineer on the Go runtime. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask! I'm super thrilled to announce that Go 1.11 is now available on App Engine! We now support... * vendoring * regular best-practice package structures * go modules * the regular Google Cloud client libraries: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/google-cloud-go This is a "second-generation" runt…

Several of your links are broken, they have been elipsised.

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Re: App Engine’s New Go 1.11 Runtime

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Post by enocom » Tue, Oct 16, 2018, 5:09 PM UTC

bpye wrote: post #7

buss wrote: post #2

I'm the tech lead and primary software engineer on the Go runtime. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask! I'm super thrilled to announce that Go 1.11 is now available on App Engine! We now support... * vendoring * regular best-practice package structures * go modules * the regular Google Cloud client libraries: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/google-cloud-go This is a "second-generation" runt…

Several of your links are broken, they have been elipsised.

The ellipsis in full is "go-differences" for the migration guide.

Re: App Engine’s New Go 1.11 Runtime

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Post by knodi » Tue, Oct 16, 2018, 5:12 PM UTC

I'm loving the new vendoring via go modules. Can't wait for it to be the default in Go 1.12