gcloud preview app deploy --remote stopped working

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What steps will reproduce the problem?

Run:

gcloud preview app deploy app.yaml --remote --version $BUILD_GROUP_NUMBER 
--force --set-default

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

I expected the app to be deployed.  Instead, I got this error:

ERROR: (gcloud.preview.app.deploy) unrecognized arguments: --remote

It appears that the --remote option was removed in the latest release, but it's 
not clear what I should be using instead.  The updated docs imply that 'remote' 
is the new default ("Perform a hosted (´remote´) or local Docker build. [...] 
The default is a hosted build.") but simply removing --remote from the command 
line gives me this error instead:

ERROR: (gcloud.preview.app.deploy) Couldn't connect to the docker daemon.

Hence three questions:
1) What's the correct way to do a --remote build with the new SDK?
2) If that's no longer possible, what's the last version that supported this 
option and how long will it keep working?
3) Where could I have learned the above without opening an issue?  I spent 10 
minutes looking for SDK release notes but couldn't find any.

What is the output of 'gcloud info'?

Google Cloud SDK [0.9.74]
Platform: [Linux, x86_64]
Python Version: [2.7.6 (default, Mar 22 2014, 22:59:56) [GCC 4.8.2]]
Site Packages: [Enabled]
Installation Root: [/root/google-cloud-sdk]
Installed Components:
core: [2015.08.17]
core-nix: [2015.06.02]
app: [2015.08.17]
gcloud: [2015.08.17]
gsutil-nix: [4.12]
gsutil: [4.13]
bq: [2.0.18]
preview: [2015.08.17]
bq-nix: [2.0.18]
System PATH: 
[/root/bin:/root/ve/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:
/bin:/root/usr/local/bin:/root/google-cloud-sdk/bin]
Cloud SDK on PATH: [True]
Installation Properties: [/root/google-cloud-sdk/properties]
User Config Directory: [/root/.config/gcloud]
User Properties: [/root/.config/gcloud/properties]
Current Workspace: [None]
Workspace Config Directory: [None]
Workspace Properties: [None]
Account: [piotr@reviewable.io]
Project: [reviewable-prod]
Current Properties:
[core]
project: [reviewable-prod]
account: [piotr@reviewable.io]
disable_usage_reporting: [False]
Logs Directory: [/root/.config/gcloud/logs]
Last Log File: [/root/.config/gcloud/logs/2015.08.20/02.51.02.547157.log]

Please provide any additional information below.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by pi...@ideanest.com on 20 Aug 2015 at 3:25

[GoogleCodeExporter]

Hi there,

Sorry for the confusion.

1. The new flag is `--docker-build=remote` (or `--docker-build=local`).

2. N/A, but in general you can pin to a specific version using the instructions 
here: https://cloud.google.com/sdk/#alternative (under the "Alternative 
Methods" tab). Any client-side behavior should remain supported indefinitely.

3. When you run `gcloud components update`, the following message is displayed:

    For the latest release notes, please visit:
      https://dl.google.com/dl/cloudsdk/channels/rapid/RELEASE_NOTES

   There is also a RELEASE_NOTES file in the root of your Cloud SDK installation (/root/google-cloud-sdk/RELEASE_NOTES) in this case.

   We know that neither of these are in the most prominent place; we plan to add the RELEASE_NOTES to our online documentation very soon, and starting in the upgrade from 0.9.74 to 0.9.75, we'll print out the new additions to the RELEASE_NOTES on upgrade.

   Additionally, in this case, `gcloud preview app deploy` printed the following warning for the last two releases:

    WARNING: `--remote` flag is deprecated and will be removed in Cloud SDK version 0.9.74. Please use the `--docker-build` flag instead.

The error you're seeing with no arguments is unexpected; please try with 
`--docker-build=remote`. If that doesn't work, please downgrade.

Once more, our apologies for any confusion. We're working hard to stabilize 
`gcloud app` so that changes of this sort won't happen any more, but some of 
the initial goals, technical details, and designs have changed, so there's 
going to be a bit of churn (that's why it's still a `preview` command; our 
stable commands change very rarely).

Original comment by z...@google.com on 20 Aug 2015 at 2:49

• Changed state: Accepted

[GoogleCodeExporter]

(One small bit of misinformation in my last post; the RELEASE_NOTES will be 
printed starting in the upgrade from 0.9.75->0.9.76, which is one release later 
than I specified).

Original comment by z...@google.com on 20 Aug 2015 at 3:00

[GoogleCodeExporter]

Thank you, the --docker-build=remote got me running again.  And no problem, I 
realize I'm playing with bleeding-edge stuff here.  :)

The reason I haven't noticed any of the messages you mention is that my build 
is completely automated on Shippable.  I don't typically look at the output 
unless the build fails -- by which point it was of course too late to see the 
helpful message.  I don't even have gcloud installed on my dev machine.

The release notes you pointed to are great!  Now if only Google Search indexed 
them...  I guess that will happen once you add them to the docs.  It would also 
be nice to publish the updates on a newsgroup or some such, so I don't have to 
manually poll the doc every few days.

Original comment by pi...@ideanest.com on 20 Aug 2015 at 8:14

[GoogleCodeExporter]

Ahh, makes sense. On our end, we'll look into the following (can't promise 
anything yet, though):

1. Make the error for deprecated flags point to the new flags in the future (so 
when you ran `--remote`, it'd tell you what the warning had told you 
previously), and in general consider your use case (not using gcloud manually 
ever).
2. Making a mailing list for new releases.

You're right that RELEASE_NOTES will show up in Google search once we get them 
on the web site.

We've fixed the issue you saw where the build was failing without the 
`--docker-build=remote` flag failing explicitly; it should be released in 
version 0.9.76. In the meantime, please continue to use that flag (it will 
continue working indefinitely).

Thanks for bearing with us through this slightly-choppy change.

Original comment by z...@google.com on 20 Aug 2015 at 8:29

• Changed state: Fixed

[GoogleCodeExporter]

FYI, we've created a mailing list to announce new releases: 
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/google-cloud-sdk-announce

Original comment by z...@google.com on 21 Aug 2015 at 9:21