Creating a global forwarding rule using Deployment Manager

[James Bursa]

I'm trying to add a global forwarding rule using Deployment Manager, but get an error that "region" must be specified. Has anyone found a workaround?

For example, I can create this rule using the gcloud command (real IP address replaced):

$ gcloud compute forwarding-rules create live --global --address 1.2.3.4 --ports 443 --target-https-proxy live-target-proxy

and it succeeds. Using describe then shows:

$ gcloud compute forwarding-rules describe live --global
IPAddress: 1.2.3.4
IPProtocol: TCP
creationTimestamp: '2016-07-18T10:22:31.969-07:00'
description: ''
id: '725036370...'
kind: compute#forwardingRule
name: live
portRange: 443-443
selfLink: https://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/.../global/forwardingRules/live
target: https://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/.../global/targetHttpsProxies/live-target-proxy

When using Deployment Manager, I entered this into the YAML file as:

- name: live
type: compute.v1.forwardingRule
properties:
IPProtocol: TCP
IPAddress: 1.2.3.4
portRange: 443-443
target: global/targetHttpsProxies/live-target-proxy

but updating the deployment fails:

gcloud deployment-manager deployments update deployment-main \
--preview --config deployment-main.yaml \
--create-policy CREATE_OR_ACQUIRE --delete-policy ABANDON
Waiting for update operation-1468863312830-537ec63fc1e31-cbfb2c59-4dde4e6c...failed.
ERROR: (gcloud.deployment-manager.deployments.update) Error in Operation operation-1468863312830-537ec63fc1e31-cbfb2c59-4dde4e6c: <ErrorValue
errors: [<ErrorsValueListEntry
code: u'CONDITION_NOT_MET'
message: u'"": domain: validation; keyword: properties; message:
required property(ies) not found; missing: ["region"]; required: ["region"]'>]>

I tried adding "region: global" but that isn't accepted.

James

[Faizan (Google Cloud Support)]

Hello James,

I was not able to reproduce this issue. My deployment was successful with the config that you have provided.

In order to further troubleshot the issue, can you provide me your gcloud version ?

Faizan

[James Bursa]

Hi Faizan,

I just updated to 117 but I'm still getting the same error. Details below.

James


$ gcloud --version
Google Cloud SDK 117.0.0

alpha 2016.07.07
beta 2016.07.07
bq 2.0.24
bq-nix 2.0.24
core 2016.07.07
core-nix 2016.07.07
gcloud
gsutil 4.19
gsutil-nix 4.19
kubectl
kubectl-linux-x86_64 1.2.4

$ gcloud deployment-manager deployments update deployment-main \

       --preview --config deployment-main.yaml \
       --create-policy CREATE_OR_ACQUIRE --delete-policy ABANDON

Waiting for update operation-1468964140141-53803ddc2c9c9-47a49916-4c0b2247...failed.
ERROR: (gcloud.deployment-manager.deployments.update) Error in Operation operation-1468964140141-53803ddc2c9c9-47a49916-4c0b2247: <ErrorValue

[Faizan (Google Cloud Support)]

Hello James,

In order to resolve your issue, you can use the type as 'compute.v1.globalForwardingRule' for global forwarding rule as shown below:

resources:

- name: live 

  type: compute.v1.globalForwardingRule

  properties:

    IPProtocol: TCP

    portRange: 443

    target: global/targetHttpsProxies/live-target-proxy

You can refer to this link [1] for more information.

I hope that helps.

Faizan

[1] https://cloud.google.com/deployment-manager/configuration/create-configuration-file

[James Bursa]

Thank you Faizan, it worked for me when using
compute.v1.globalForwardingRule instead of compute.v1.forwardingRule.

My assumption had been that:

kind: compute#forwardingRule

in the describe output meant that

type: compute.v1.forwardingRule

was needed in the deployment YAML.

James