Metadata Survey

A simplish metadata parser.

Implementation

Allows generic querying of the metadata server accessible within a Cloud Run service to inspect itself.

Implemented in Python using HTTPx, Flask. Styled with LaTeX.css

Local testing

A dummy metadata server is provided for local testing:

LOCAL=5001
FLASK_ENV=development

FLASK_APP=dummymetadata.py flask run --port $LOCAL &
flask run

Deploy

First Deployment

Use the "Run on Google Cloud" button above.

Alternative gcloud method:

PROJECT_ID=YourProject
REGION=YourRegion

gcloud config set project $PROJECT_ID

gcloud builds submit --tag gcr.io/${PROJECT_ID}/metadata

gcloud run deploy metadata \
   --region $REGION \
   --platform managed \
   --image gcr.io/${PROJECT_ID}/metadata \
   --allow-unauthenticated

Continuous Deployment

Requires Cloud Build to have permissions to deploy Cloud Run

gcloud builds submit