Django on Google App Engine

Question

How much of a pain is it to run a Django App on App Engine? Also, does the Datastore work as-is with Django?

Answer 1

You need to use django-nonrel (source).

You will still find loads of issues:

• Many2Many relations not supported
• Fake joins increase number of queries
• App Engine doesn't allow any python lib with socket or C dependencies (sentry, lxml...)

You can try to get early access to CloudSQL.

Otherwise you are not constraint to use App Engine, you can think about using:

• Heroku
• Gondor

Cheaper and more control with support requirement files like pip.