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About App Engine flexible environment
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The flexible environment runs your applications within Docker containers on Compute Engine virtual machines (VM). Your application code can be written in a version of any of the supported programming languages.

Learn more in the overview of the flexible environment documentation.

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Last updated 2025-06-16 UTC.

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