Managing Cloud Platform Projects, App Engine Applications, and Billing

A Google Cloud Platform project contains your App Engine application as well as other Cloud Platform resources.

From the Google Cloud Platform Console, you can perform all of your administrative tasks, including the common tasks covered in this topic. For general information about using the console, see the console guide.

Before you can deploy your apps to the App Engine standard environment, you typically need to create or set up the following:

1. A Cloud Platform project
2. An App Engine application
3. Optional: A billing account

Creating a project and application

Create a Google Cloud Platform project and App Engine application to create and manage a collection of settings, credentials, and your app's metadata.

To deploy your apps to a Cloud Platform project, you must create a corresponding App Engine application, which defines the location from where you want your App Engine services run.

Enabling billing

To enable billing in a Cloud Platform project:

1. In the Cloud Platform Console, go to the Billing page:

   Go to the Billing page

2. Create a new billing account or associate an existing account with a project:

   • If billing is already enabled, then the billing account details for the project are listed.

   • If a billing account exists, you are prompted to associate an existing account with your project. You can also click Cancel and then New billing account to create and use another account.

   • If no account exists, you are prompted to add a billing account to your project.

For more information, see Billing settings.

Setting a spending limit

You can set a daily spending limit only for your App Engine resources.

Remember: The spending limit does not apply to other Google Cloud Platform resources and you will be charged for their usage.

To set a daily spending limit for the App Engine resources in a Cloud Platform project:

1. In the Cloud Platform Console, go to the Application settings page:

   Go to the Application settings page

2. Click Edit and specify a spending limit. When you increase the daily spending limit, the new limit takes effect immediately.

3. Click Save to set the spending limit for this project. If you have multiple Cloud Platform projects, you must individually set spending limits in each project.

For more information, see Spending Limits.

Managing billing

To manage a billing account, go to the Billing Accounts page in the Cloud Platform Console:

Go to the Billing Accounts page

Select the account to:

• View your transaction history for the account and make a payment on the History page.
• Change your payment method on the Payment settings page.
• Add billing administrators on the Overview page.
• Set up an alert for when monthly charges exceed a threshold on the Budgets & alerts page.

Disabling billing

After you enable billing, you can stop automatic payments for a project by disabling billing for the project. Alternatively, if you also want to release all the resources used in a project, you can shut down the project.

Shutting down a project

You can disable billing and release all the Cloud Platform resources that are being used in your Cloud Platform project by shutting down that project.

gcloud projects delete