Firestore London region only available via Firebase console?

[opy...@gmail.com]

Hello,

I'm planning to create a new Firebase project using europe-west2 (London) for the Firestore region.

However, on another project, when trying to add Firestore via cloud console, it still only shows Frankfurt.

Is cloud console incomplete? Or does that mean that the Firebase console is telling a lie?

Also (more importantly) how can I use the Firebase CLI or gcloud CLI to check the region for Firestore? Or how do I check the Firestore region?

Thanks,

[Kato Richardson]

The regions selected while creating a project don't apply to Firestore yet, unfortunately. You have to select the Firestore region when adding the DB to the project.

Firestore is not available in europe-west2 yet. See https://firebase.google.com/docs/firestore/locations

☼, Kato

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[Kato Richardson]

Ugh, I've gotten so used to typing that it's not available in west2 that I just reflexively did so here : )

Firestore is available in europe-west2 per https://firebase.google.com/docs/firestore/locations.

☼, Kato

[opy...@gmail.com]

Hi Kato, thanks for the reply. Any thoughts on the discrepancy and HOW to find the region using console/tools?

> Also (more importantly) how can I use the Firebase CLI or gcloud CLI to check the region for Firestore? Or how do I check the Firestore region?

[Samuel Stern]

I don't know of a way to programmatically check the region of a Firestore DB from either the firebase or gcloud CLI tools.  Can you tell a little more about why that feature would be useful to you?

- Sam

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[opy...@gmail.com]

Say the manager wants to know what region the Firestore is in. The person who created the Firestore is out of the office. No-one else in the team can check under current conditions.

I know it sounds like a silly scenario (e.g. why didn't you write it down?) but surely I ought to be able to check any metadata on any of my services if I want to?

[opy...@gmail.com]

On Thursday, 24 January 2019 18:58:39 UTC, opy...@gmail.com wrote:

Say the manager wants to know what region the Firestore is in. The person who created the Firestore is out of the office. No-one else in the team can check under current conditions.

I know it sounds like a silly scenario (e.g. why didn't you write it down?) but surely I ought to be able to check any metadata on any of my services if I want to?

Got it:

I spoke to Google support earlier:

- on the console, open a cloud shell

- type `gcloud app describe`

- get output like this

```

juan@cloudshell:~ (deleteme-7a56d)$ gcloud app describe

authDomain: gmail.com

codeBucket: staging.deleteme-7a56d.appspot.com

defaultBucket: deleteme-7a56d.appspot.com

defaultHostname: deleteme-7a56d.appspot.com

featureSettings:

splitHealthChecks: true

gcrDomain: eu.gcr.io

id: deleteme-7a56d

locationId: europe-west2

name: apps/deleteme-7a56d

servingStatus: SERVING

```

`locationId: europe-west2` in London, which is what I wanted to see. The support rep told me that that is also my Firestore region, and the app `deleteme-7a56d` was created via Firebase console (where I chose `europe-west2` as a region) 

[Samuel Stern]

Huh the more you know!  Thanks for teaching me something (and everyone else reading).

- Sam

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[opy...@gmail.com]

On Thursday, 24 January 2019 20:31:57 UTC, Samuel Stern wrote:

Huh the more you know!  Thanks for teaching me something (and everyone else reading).

No problem! :)

Still wondering why there's a discrepancy on the console, though... (see original post). Googlers?

[Samuel Stern]

The gist is that launching a new location for Firestore (or any service) has a lot of moving pieces.  There can be a gap between when the servers light up and when that information is piped through to every developer-visible surface.  Right now we're in a situation where the service is becoming available in new locations but we haven't gone and updated the UI in all places (the Cloud Console being one) or updated the docs yet.  Expect a more formal announcement of these locations soon, and at that time everything should be consistent.

Hope that makes sense!

Sam

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[opy...@gmail.com]

On Wednesday, 30 January 2019 22:58:52 UTC, Samuel Stern wrote:

 but we haven't gone and updated the UI in all places (the Cloud Console being one) or updated the docs yet.

Thanks for that. Makes sense. 

[Samuel Stern]

Hi there,

Following up again, Cloud Firestore went from Beta to GA this morning:

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/announcing-cloud-firestore-general-availability-and-updates

We have now officially launched 10 new locations.  So if you notice any issues with those locations being displayed inconsistently, please let us know and we will treat them as bugs.

Thanks for your patience!

- Sam

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