Issue
I just recently set up Firebase functions. After making a simple helloWorld function work, I wanted to set up a cron job following this Google blog tutorial. I always get an error at this step:
gcloud app deploy app.yaml \ cron.yaml
I get following error message:
C:\Users\vreee\Firebase\functions-cron\appengine>gcloud app deploy app.yaml \
cron.yaml
WARNING: Automatic app detection is deprecated and will soon be removed. As
an alternative, create an app.yaml file yourself using the directions at
https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/flexible/python/configuring-your-app-with-app-yaml (App Engine Flexible Environment) or
https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/python/config/appref (App
Engine Standard Environment) under the tab for your language.
Deployment to Google App Engine requires an app.yaml file. This
command will run `gcloud beta app gen-config` to generate an app.yaml
file for you in the current directory (if the current directory does
not contain an App Engine service, please answer "no").
Do you want to continue (Y/n)? y
This looks like a Python app. If so, please enter the command to run
the app in production (enter nothing if it's not a python app): :
Writing [app.yaml] to [C:\].
ERROR: gcloud crashed (IOError): [Errno 13] Permission denied:
u'C:\\app.yaml'
If you would like to report this issue, please run the following command:
gcloud feedback
To check gcloud for common problems, please run the following command:
gcloud info --run-diagnostics
Anyone know how to solve this? I searched and set myself with my email address (not a service account) as the owner, so the permission should be there. I just notice that it tried to create an app.yaml file directly under C:\\ instead of the functions-cron folder containing an app.yaml and the cron.yaml file.
Would really appreciate the help!! For additional information, I am using windows..
Solution
It seems indeed that the Cloud SDK is trying to create an app.yaml file, which means there was no app.yaml file in your folder C:\Users\vreee\Firebase\functions-cron\appengine. As per the tutorial you linked, both app.yaml and cron.yaml files should be in that directory when you run the deploy command.
So your options are:
- If you have already deployed an app and your app.yaml file hasn't changed (i.e it already declares the endpoint for your cron job), you can run the following command from your
\functions-cron\appenginefolder to upload the cron.yaml file only:gcloud app deploy cron.yaml. - Otherwise, you need to have both files within the same folder and run the command
gcloud app deploy app.yaml cron.yaml.
Answered By - LundinCast
