The built-in Django libraries for Django on App Engine are severely outdated. I have new guides that just vendor in recent version: https://cloud.google.com/py

The built-in Django libraries for Django on App Engine are severely outdated. I have new guides that just vendor in recent version: https://cloud.google.com/python/django/appengine https://cloud.google.com/python/django/appengine However there are a lot of tricky issues with Django on App Engine so I would also look into Djangae: https://github.com/potatolondon/djangae https://github.com/potatolondon/djangae As far as Kubernetes, the OP and I had some independent discovery and started working on similar material at the same time. I also have some Django/Kubernetes content, both CloudSQL (MySQL) and Postgres in Kubernetes: https://cloud.google.com/python/django/container-engine https://cloud.google.com/python/django/container-engine (CloudSQL) https://medium.com/google-cloud/deploying-django-postgres-redis-containers-to-kubernetes-9ee28e7a146 https://medium.com/google-cloud/deploying-django-postgres-re... (Postgres) My biggest reason for running the database in Kubernetes is a) CloudSQL doesn't currently support Postgres and b) it's interesting. Seems like OP had similar motivations. Obvious disclosure: I work for GCP.