Cloud Functions: How to upload a folder that contains images? - google-cloud-platform

Question

I want to deploy a bot using Cloud Functions from Google Cloud Platform. My code is write in python, but I want to add a folder with a lot of images that my bot will tweet on twitter. I want to do that to make sure my bot will run 24/7, and add to Cloud Scheduler to schedule my tweets.
Is possible to upload the image folder there somehow?
I tried to upload all of my file in a .zip file and upload there, but it will fail to build. Alone just code is working fine. I use Google Developer Platform for some time but I never tried this.
Here are the errors from google cloud platform:
{
"protoPayload": {
"#type": "type.googleapis.com/google.cloud.audit.AuditLog",
"status": {
"code": 3,
"message": "Function failed on loading user code. This is likely due to a bug in the user code. Error message: Error: please examine your function logs to see the error cause: https://cloud.google.com/functions/docs/monitoring/logging#viewing_logs. Additional troubleshooting documentation can be found at https://cloud.google.com/functions/docs/troubleshooting#logging. Please visit https://cloud.google.com/functions/docs/troubleshooting for in-depth troubleshooting documentation."
},
"authenticationInfo": {
"principalEmail": "robertmaximus383#gmail.com"
},
"serviceName": "cloudfunctions.googleapis.com",
"methodName": "google.cloud.functions.v1.CloudFunctionsService.CreateFunction",
"resourceName": "projects/twitter-post-bot/locations/us-central1/functions/twitter-post"
},
"insertId": "-63htw4d2bfe",
"resource": {
"type": "cloud_function",
"labels": {
"project_id": "twitter-post-bot",
"region": "us-central1",
"function_name": "twitter-post"
}
},
"timestamp": "2022-01-31T08:06:24.986674Z",
"severity": "ERROR",
"logName": "projects/twitter-post-bot/logs/cloudaudit.googleapis.com%2Factivity",
"operation": {
"id": "operations/dHdpdHRlci1wb3N0LWJvdC91cy1jZW50cmFsMS90d2l0dGVyLXBvc3QvZEt5N24yX1NjTE0",
"producer": "cloudfunctions.googleapis.com",
"last": true
},
"receiveTimestamp": "2022-01-31T08:06:25.259596536Z"
}
2
{
"textPayload": "Function cannot be initialized. Error: function terminated. Recommended action: inspect logs for termination reason. Additional troubleshooting documentation can be found at https://cloud.google.com/functions/docs/troubleshooting#logging\n",
"insertId": "000000-5838e3b2-5d8d-4187-86ca-97327d016436",
"resource": {
"type": "cloud_function",
"labels": {
"region": "us-central1",
"function_name": "twitter-post",
"project_id": "twitter-post-bot"
}
},
"timestamp": "2022-01-31T08:06:24.930142467Z",
"severity": "ERROR",
"labels": {
"execution_id": ""
},
"logName": "projects/twitter-post-bot/logs/cloudfunctions.googleapis.com%2Fcloud-functions",
"receiveTimestamp": "2022-01-31T08:06:25.532983237Z"
}
3
{
"textPayload": "Traceback (most recent call last):\n File \"/layers/google.python.pip/pip/bin/functions-framework\", line 8, in <module>\n sys.exit(_cli())\n File \"/layers/google.python.pip/pip/lib/python3.9/site-packages/click/core.py\", line 829, in __call__\n return self.main(*args, **kwargs)\n File \"/layers/google.python.pip/pip/lib/python3.9/site-packages/click/core.py\", line 782, in main\n rv = self.invoke(ctx)\n File \"/layers/google.python.pip/pip/lib/python3.9/site-packages/click/core.py\", line 1066, in invoke\n return ctx.invoke(self.callback, **ctx.params)\n File \"/layers/google.python.pip/pip/lib/python3.9/site-packages/click/core.py\", line 610, in invoke\n return callback(*args, **kwargs)\n File \"/layers/google.python.pip/pip/lib/python3.9/site-packages/functions_framework/_cli.py\", line 37, in _cli\n app = create_app(target, source, signature_type)\n File \"/layers/google.python.pip/pip/lib/python3.9/site-packages/functions_framework/__init__.py\", line 288, in create_app\n spec.loader.exec_module(source_module)\n File \"<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>\", line 850, in exec_module\n File \"<frozen importlib._bootstrap>\", line 228, in _call_with_frames_removed\n File \"/workspace/main.py\", line 2, in <module>\n from twitter import *\nModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'twitter'",
"insertId": "000000-438da477-ef7c-4c81-98a2-21bdccc7ca12",
"resource": {
"type": "cloud_function",
"labels": {
"project_id": "twitter-post-bot",
"function_name": "twitter-post",
"region": "us-central1"
}
},
"timestamp": "2022-01-31T08:06:24.238Z",
"severity": "ERROR",
"labels": {
"execution_id": ""
},
"logName": "projects/twitter-post-bot/logs/cloudfunctions.googleapis.com%2Fcloud-functions",
"receiveTimestamp": "2022-01-31T08:06:25.532983237Z"
}

Answer 1

When you deploy your code on Cloud Functions, the code is taken, compiled and packaged in a container (with Buildpack) and deployed on Cloud Functions.
In your case, the code is not compiled, only packaged.
Your source code is kept in the container, but in a specific directory. I wrote an article with a sample in Golang but you can find where the statics files are stored: /workspace/src/
That will fix your issue, but I think you have a design issue. The static and unstructured data should be in your Cloud Functions. Cloud Storage is the perfect place for that, and it's a better and more scalable solution.