title: WordPress on Google App Engine Standard Environment: impossible to upload cron.yaml
body: <p>I have just installed a fresh copy of WordPress on a Google Cloud Platform App Engine STANDARD environment following these steps: <a href="https://cloud.google.com/community/tutorials/run-wordpress-on-appengine-standard" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://cloud.google.com/community/tutorials/run-wordpress-on-appengine-standard</a></p>
  
  <p>I have some problem with the <code>gcloud app deploy cron.yaml</code></p>
  
  <p>I have reviewd many times cron.yaml file, overwritten, and now is pretty empy (<code>cron:</code>)</p>
  
  <p>I'm always getting this error: </p>
  
  <pre><code>xxx@xxx:~/wordpress$ gcloud app deploy cron.yaml
  Configurations to update:
  
  descriptor:      [/home/xxx/wordpress/cron.yaml]
  type:            [cron jobs]
  target project:  [xxx-news]
  
  
  Do you want to continue (Y/n)?  y
  
  Updating config [cron]...failed.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         
  ERROR: gcloud crashed (TypeError): sequence item 0: expected str instance, bytes found
  </code></pre>