With the MongoDB server up and running, we'll make a few configurational changes and deploy the application to the App Engine:
- Logging into the Cloud Platform Console, create an App Engine application, select the region where the application will be hosted and enable billing. You can follow along with the interactive tutorial provided by Google to host your first Node.js application to the App Engine.
- In the development machine, copy the Chapter01/mysite folder to a new folder called Chapter01/mysite-ae from where we'll push the code to the App Engine:
$ cp mysite/ mysite-ae/ -r
- Navigate to the mysite-ae folder. Open the .env file and update the path for MONGO_URI to point to our VM:
MONGO_URI=mongodb://<External IP>:27017/mysite ...
