yeah but at least it is also better than those blades you get in microsoft Azure. Now that is a clusterfuck.
The 'beauty' of GCP is that I can effectively use my ipad's browser to manage some stuff on the go, or keep google cloud open in a small browser window on a secondary monitor, with full flexibility and full featureset. On azure, the pages don't always work, or break, and the app has way less functionality.
The best thing would be naturally a design that adapts better to display size than what they currently have, but I would call it badly optimized instead of bad design.
there is an undocumented feature, called zip deploy, if you deploy to an app service. Give it a go, it might just work. I use it to deploy a Python Django website. You need to add a setting in your App Service environment variables.
It took me an escalation from our account manager, to get a good support guy, who informed me of this functionality.
Here is the summary of my support ticket:
WEBSITE_RUN_FROM_PACKAGE” and value as 1.
We performed deployment and it took around 30 secs. We also verified that the app is working fine.
Now you will do some changes and deploy once more to verify end to end pipeline.
Zip deployment is a feature of Azure App Service that lets you deploy your function app project to the wwwroot directory. The project is packaged as a .zip deployment file. The same APIs can be used to deploy your package to the d:\home\data\SitePackages folder. With the WEBSITE_RUN_FROM_PACKAGE app setting value of 1, the zip deployment APIs copy your package to the d:\home\data\SitePackages folder instead of extracting the files to d:\home\site\wwwroot. It also creates the packagename.txt file. After a restart, the package is mounted to wwwroot as a read-only filesystem.
So yes, I made a 3-5% profit over roughly 18 months, but it took a lot of time, stress, and in the end I ended up with less money.
Is your experience the same?