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Avinash Raj
Avinash Raj

Reputation: 174826

gcloud app deploy : This deployment has too many files

I got the below error, when I tried to deploy my GAE app through gcloud.

Updating service [default]...failed.                                                                  
ERROR: (gcloud.app.deploy) Error Response: [400] This deployment has too many files. New versions are limited to 10000 files for this app.

Details: [
  [
    {
      "@type": "type.googleapis.com/google.rpc.BadRequest",
      "fieldViolations": [
        {
          "description": "This deployment has too many files. New versions are limited to 10000 files for this app.",
          "field": "version.deployment.files[...]"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
]

Is there any way to tackle this problem?

Upvotes: 25

Views: 21812

Answers (10)

Sarkom
Sarkom

Reputation: 853

Like other answers, my problem was that gcloud app deploy does not ignore virtual envs or node modules. The following helped me figure it out:

  1. gcloud meta list-files-for-upload will show you the list of files that will be uploaded, without having to go through the deploy process.

  2. Add the line:

    #!include:.gitignore

    to your .gcloudignore file, unless there are git-ignored files you want to upload. You can't add .gitignore files from other directories, but this can get you a lot of the way there.

  3. Add additional entries to .gcloudignore as needed until the list of files for upload is manageable.

Upvotes: 0

Walker
Walker

Reputation: 954

I had the same issue. Using .gcouldignore helped reduce from 15000 plus to 30.

 node_modules/
.gitignore
.git

Upvotes: 0

speedplane
speedplane

Reputation: 16141

I made a request to Google Cloud support, and this is their official response to this issue:

Thank you for contacting Google Cloud Support. I understand you’re unable to deploy your app since you’re hitting a 10,000 file limit upload as indicated in the error message, let me know if I misunderstood.

GAE is unable to perform deployments with over 10,000 files. Please run the following command to see the number of files being deployed: find . -type f | wc -l. In case you see that the number is above 10,000; make sure to prevent unnecessary files from being deployed by using the app.yaml option skip_files [1]. This element helps you to indicate which files should not be uploaded [1].

If the error persists, there are two other ways to solve this problem:

  1. If the files that you are using are static content, use Cloud Storage bucket to store your files. You can store them in a GCS bucket and serve them through App Engine [2]. When you create an app, App Engine creates a default bucket. To use it you will have to list the bucket in your project [3] and then declare Cloud Storage as a dependency by adding it to the app’s dependency files [4]. This will allow you to upload or download data from the buckets [5][6]. Please consider that using this alternative may impact your monthly expenses.

  2. Increase the number of uploaded files by submitting a quota increase. To do so, I will require the following information which will be submitted to the product team so they can review it and make a decision on it: A business justification for this quota increase The new desired limit.

  1. https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/python/config/appref#skip_files
  2. https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/java/using-cloud-storage
  3. https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/listing-buckets
  4. https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/reference/libraries#installing_the_client_library
  5. https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/uploading-objects
  6. https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/downloading-objects

Upvotes: 1

vperezb
vperezb

Reputation: 413

As mentioned in some comment, virtualenv folder can have a lot of files.

I just added venv/ as a new line into .gcloudignore file.

Upvotes: 3

Neftalí Yagua
Neftalí Yagua

Reputation: 649

Maybe your need ignore some files in file .gcloudignore

/vendor/
/node_modules/
/.git/

This work for me!

Upvotes: 5

martinedwards
martinedwards

Reputation: 5825

Few things:

  1. Sometimes the static folder can get a bit messy. Try deleting it and rerunning python manage.py collectstatic, this cut down about 2000 files for me.
  2. Make sure your .gcloudignore file ignores the assets folder, given they've just been moved to static.
  3. Ignore virtualenv folders, they're big

Upvotes: 1

Keita
Keita

Reputation: 349

I was able to reduce my uploaded files by adding the google cloud sdk folder to .gcloudignore in the project root folder.

Upvotes: 1

Dan Cornilescu
Dan Cornilescu

Reputation: 39834

If you really have more than the 10000 files quota in the service you're trying to deploy then you might have to reduce the number accordingly.

Other things to try:

Assuming you do not actually hit the files quota then the error usually indicates you have looping/circular referencing symlinks in your app directory. Which could also explain a path like the one you mentioned in a comment to this post: https://stackoverflow.com/a/42425048/4495081. You just have to fix the offending symlink(s). Again, a simple/consistent directory structure could help prevent such issues.

Upvotes: 23

zardilior
zardilior

Reputation: 2978

For python runtime 3.7, this error is solved by adding these files to a .gcloudingore not to skip_files in the app.yaml

Upvotes: 1

Dave W. Smith
Dave W. Smith

Reputation: 24966

gcloud app deploy writes a log file, and tells you where that log is early in its output. Examine that log. It'll tell you what's being uploaded.

Two common ways I've seen people get into trouble are

  1. Using virtualenv, but not adding venv (or .venv, if that's the name you picked) to skip_files.
  2. Using git, but forgetting to add .git to skip_files

Upvotes: 19

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