How to create GCE default service account?

[Zhomart Mukhamejanov]

I'm trying to use GCE Deployment Manager. But it doesn't let me create deployment with following error:

```

You must have the GCE default service account in order to create a deployment. Contact support for help restoring the account.

```

How to create this GCE default service account?

In IAM I have following records:

1. <PROJ-ID>-com...@developer.gserviceaccount.com | ROLE=Editor

2. <PROJ-ID>@developer.gserviceaccount.com | ROLE=Editor

3. default@<PROJ-NAME>.iam.gserviceaccount.com | ROLE=Editor

....

And following service accounts:

<PROJ-ID>@developer.gserviceaccount.com

default@<PROJ-NAME>.iam.gserviceaccount.com

...

[Carlos (Cloud Platform Support)]

It does seems that you have the default GCE service account and the appropriate role. As in the Stackoverflow discussion, the documentation also mentions the API service account ([PROJECT_NUMBER]@cloudservices.gserviceaccount.com) which cannot be deleted but roles can be changed. This account must also have “editor role”.

Another thing to try would be to re-enabled the deployment manager API.

[Zhomart Mukhamejanov]

Hi Carlos,

all of my service accounts have Editor role. 

In the end I decided to create a new project and create deployment there. But I still have services running on my current project, so it would be nice if deployments start working again.

[Carlos (Cloud Platform Support)]

Hi Zhomart, 

Please send me your Project ID via a private message. Did you already tried to re-enable the Deployment Manager API?

[Carlos (Cloud Platform Support)]

Update:

In this case the issue was related to the naming convention used by the default service account. Some old projects have the default GCE account defined as [project number]@developer.gserviceaccount.com. At one point the format got changed to [project number]-com...@developer.gserviceaccount.com. New releases of Cloud Launcher were not recognizing old accounts. This has already being fixed. 

[Thomas Gerlach]

I am having the exact same problem. I am trying to move from JBoss to TomCat, but I can't create a TomCat instance because I don't have a valid service account. I have sent countless emails to everyone at google, but nobody will help me. What do I need to do to fix this? I've been given the runaround for a month now.