Firstly, please download google clodu sdk from: https://cloud.google.com/sdk/

And follow the following instruction to setup your sdk environement https://cloud.google.com/sdk/downloads

enther the server folder. the following command will start the server in your local machine

$YOUR_PATH_TO_GOOGLE_CLOUD_SDK/google-cloud-sdk/bin/dev_appserver.py ./

There are several url reserved for testing purpose. You can send accordingly http request (best on the method type is get or post) to that url.

The following command is using httpie as the command line http client to test this web application: https://github.com/jakubroztocil/httpie

http get localhost:8080/create
http get localhost:8080/clear
http post localhost:8000/duplicate_test_add cat=="Google+"
http post localhost:8000/duplicate_test_remove cat=="Google+"
http get localhost:8080/is_database_created
http get localhost:8080/find_largest_movie_id

Database’s content can be visualized at https://localhost:8000. From DataStore Viewer option.

Before deploying this web application to cloud compute machine, you have to create a project at google cloud console firstly. Then use --project to specify the project ID.

For more information about how to deploy the web application, please refer to: https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/python/getting-started/deploying-the-application