How to deploy a Flask Backend and React Front End on Google Cloud

Ethan Shapiro 0
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I know this may seem like an opinion-based question but I can't seem to find any answers anywhere. I'm having trouble figuring out how to deploy my flask backend and react front end on google cloud. I am using a docker-compose on my local machine but I can't seem to find a way to deploy that on Google Cloud.

My question is, is there a way to deploy them using a docker-compose file using Cloud Build and Cloud Run? Or do I have to create two different Cloud Run instances to run the frontend and backend? Or is it better to create a VM instance and run the docker-compose container on there (and how would one even do this)? I am very new to deployment so any help is appreciated.

For reference, I saw this but it didn't exactly answer my question. Thanks in advance!

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You use docker-compose for multi-container applications. In your case it wouldn't make much sense.

You have a python backend. You can containerize it and deploy to Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, App Engine, Google Kubernetes Engine or even on a Compute Engine VM. In my opinion the most convenient option would be Cloud Run.

If your React frontend is a Single Page App, it communicates with your python backend with HTTP requests. You build the HTML/CSS/JS files and host them somewhere, like a Cloud Storage bucket or Cloud CDN.

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