Google compute engine external ip

Question

I have a nodejs app in google compute engine which I can access with the given appspot adress.

In networking I set the ip adress as static. I have added a firewall rule for allow any trafic , tcp:8080.

But when I try to go onto external ip adress on my browser it fails to load. So I cannot acces my site with external ip adress.

What should I do to be able to use external IP adress?

Answer 1

So it seems like , when you use "gcloud preview app deploy" command it deploys to google cloud compute engine where the app is runing on port 8080.

To have a static IP to you project here are the steps to take:

1) In your code , create an app.yaml file. Forward port 80 to port 8080 (where your app is listening)

    network:
     forwarded_ports:
     - 80:8080

2) go head and deploy you app

   gcloud preview app deploy

3) In your google console go to NETWORKING > FIREWALL RULES and add new firewall rule for tcp:80

4) Go onto EXTERNAL IP ADDRESSES and change your apps IP address to static.

You will see your site runing on the external ip adress.