How can I exclude a file from deploy in gcloud?

Question

I have built a Node.js app and what I do to deploy is cd into my project's directory and run gcloud preview app deploy. This works, but in the files I also have a JSON file which acts like the database for my application, which I do not want updated on the site when I deploy.

I cannot seem to find any way of doing this.

Any idea?

Answer 1

I believe you will want to use the skip_files directive in your app.yaml to exclude paths or files you do not want deployed.

Something like:

skip_files:
  - ^your_data_dir/.*\.json?