Not have enough resources available to fulfill the request. Try a different zone, or try again

[Swiss Society Virtual And Augmented Reality SSVAR]

Hello everyone,

Are you experimenting this problem these days?

The zone 'projects/myproject/zones/europe-west3-c' does not have enough resources available to fulfill the request. 

 Try a different zone, or try again later.

I can't start the VM at all...

Should I recreate a new ip in an another zone??

How to resolve this?

Thanks a lot

[Taame (Google Cloud Support)]

Hi, 

my apologies that you’re experiencing this issue. Be assured that the team is working hard to resolve it.

Our goal is to make sure that there are available resources in all zones. This type of issue is rare. When a situation like this occurs, or is about to occur, our team is notified immediately and the issue is investigated.

We recommend deploying and balancing your workload across multiple zones or regions to reduce the likelihood of an outage. Please review our documentation which outlines how to build and design robust systems. 

I would recommend you to try again as I was able to add resources to zone “Europe-west3-c”. If this issue is still persisting. Please feel free to report it and will make sure to check further. 

As a workaround, I would recommend that you check our documentation about “Moving an Instance Between Zones” that includes information about internal/external IP. 

[Tech Services]

This issue affects us to the point we cant use GCP.

Almost always the issue is resolved by playing round with IP addresses (for us), i.e. create the VM with no external IP, then attach after the creation of the VM.

I cant find any indication in logs what the issue is.

[alok chitranshi]

Experiencing the same for us-east1-b zone. 

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[Matt Fysh]

Having an extremely frustrating experience this evening, trying to create a new cluster.

It does not want to create instance groups in west, central or east zones - due to this error

Thus, all cluster creations are failing

This is pretty much a new project with very few resources

I've also checked my quotas, and have not approached any limits

I also note the ongoing GKE incident on the dashboard.

The workaround is to use the CLI to create new node pools - but this is not possible if the cluster does not exist, and I cannot create any clusters due to this incident. So the workaround is useless for anyone trying to create a new cluster.

It also looks as though this ongoing incident has lasted almost 24 hours. Not great, this is the type of quality incident that causes clients to move away from cloud providers.

[Flavio Castro]

Good morning, I'm also facing problems of this type and the most serious, is happening in several zones, now imagine, I have projects installed in these places, companies using and simply the servitor is stopped! the fact that you have an image in another region does not solve the problem, not to mention the inconvenience of directing the dns ... unfortunate, how will I trust a service of these? the google itself explained and suggests that you turn off your machines to save resources (in relation to costs) I think google is giving a message to always leave your machines on, so you get guaranteed service.

us-east1-d' does not have enough resources available to fulfill the request. Try a different zone, or try again later.

us-central1-c' does not have enough resources available to fulfill the request. Try a different zone, or try again later.

southamerica-east1-c' does not have enough resources available to fulfill the request. Try a different zone, or try again later.

us-east1-d' does not have enough resources available to fulfill the request. Try a different zone, or try again later.

This is very serious!

[Flavio Castro]

I'm having problems and critical services stopped at us-east1-d, us-central1-a-b-c, southamerica-east-1-a, b, c .. will I have to migrate products to asia? direct all dns? unfortunate...

[Flavio Castro]

I'm not even able to create new instances .. only los-angeles available--

[alex b]

After trying about 8 zones without success, I finally found that I could create a VM in europe-west4-a.

[alex b]

I've just signed up for a new account and am unable to start a VM... I am getting this same error message. See attached screenshot.

[Flavio Castro]

The devotee's problems are the same as those of the region, the differences, the conclusiveness, and the confident nature of the mud and politics of the United States, and the priority of the que contrato or uso continuo. estou com 14 instancias parade! room com ip fixo e serviços locais .. um caos! .. acho que a solução é migrar para amazon.

[Flavio Castro]

[Justin Reiners]

I've got a hundred vm's running in production without issue in central1-a right now.

Plenty of stuff is running and I never have issues. I also never run into the issue of no hardware available. I spun up a 32 core machine without issue In us-central1-a and us-west-1 yesterday.

Open a support ticket and please stop posting the same thing over and over again spamming this forum. It's for general questions with the service.

If there isn't a ticket opened, nobody works weekends at Google unless there is a ticket for someone oncall to work on.

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[Tech Services]

The "works on my machine" isnt really an argument or of any use to those experiencing this issue.

For those on "Basic" support these forums are all there is, so yes these people would need to fork over the $200 or whatever it is to get Google to fix their sh#t.

[Larbi (Google Cloud Support)]

We are continuously expanding capacity, so you can try again later, however, the immediate solution is to create your instance in a different zone.

I'll recommend reviewing this link that recommends distributing your instances across zones to increase availability. You can also review this other link, where you will find some best practices for designing robust systems on GCE.

Getting a "zone resources exhausted" message is specific to that request and that moment in time. It is possible that the size or type of resource you requested is temporarily in use, try other available zone (if a different zone not crucial ) or try in different time.

Unfortunately, there rare occurrences, therefor why we are continuously expanding our capacity.  

[Jay Zeemer]

I had an issue this weekend deploying to any of the zones in US-EAST1 and all but 1 zone in US-EAST4.  I sent an email in for support about it and have asked some specific questions about this that I am waiting on a response on.  It seems like there has been a pretty big spike in the number of complaints about this starting on Friday. My goal of building a cluster is that I have to worry less about resourcing since it should be able scale as needed, if I need to worry about the entire region running out of resources with regularity I would like to understand that before I commit to moving more of our physical hardware to the cloud.  This is not just one person posting about it, it is several people posting and trying to figure out why they cant do what the expect to be able to do.

[Mohamed JP Sangaré]

Sorry all,

I didn't follow the feed because things came to normal ... without my intervention...

So unfortunately I can't help others having the same trouble...

Thank you!

[Thomas Yarger]

As of 1:16 PM EST, my instance us-east1-c is doing the same thing. 

[Operand BR]

I am also getting the same error today!

Tried US-EAST1 and US EAST4, also US-CENTRAL 1, none of them worked to create new instances.

I'm in the middle of migrating groups of clients from another cloud vendor, but won't do it if this is a recurring issue.

[Jose VxLAN]

Same issue here for us-central1-c since Saturday 10th Nov. No way to start a simple VM.

Is Google Cloud Support providing any official word about this issue? Any ETA for resolution?

[omar essam]

At this point, it's getting suffocating.

4 days in a row getting the same error. First started in us-central1-C. I went ahead and made a new instance in europe-west1-b that worked perfectly for days then BAANG the same shit.

Went ahead and made a new instance australia-southeast1-b, again worked for a day then BAANG same issue.

Strangely enough, it doesn't look like a normal resources depletion at all. Any of the 3 instances could be started without an external ip in no time. But dare you choose 

Ephemeral

and it won't start.   So please, be honest and tell us what the hell is going on.

[Larbi (Google Cloud Support)]

Hello Omar,

We apologies for all the inconvenient as I state before getting a "zone resources exhausted" message is specific to that request and that moment in time. It is possible that the size or type of resource you requested is temporarily in use, try other available zone (if a different zone not crucial ) or try in different time.  

You can read the answer from Paul Nash where the the same discussion opened. 

I know this is frustrating, We work hard to make this very rare, but it does happen.

[Howard Zeemer]

I experienced this issue for several days, responses I've gotten are the same canned response seen here.  My cluster is back up and running now and hopefully will stay that way.  I did get told about a feature request so that we can see regional/zone resource availability (https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/72811715), please post to it so that we can push this up as a priority to the development teams. I understand the issue, and that the team is adding new resources but we really need more then a just try again solution.

[Rohit kumar]

I am facing the same issue from the last  45 days.

The zone 'projects/seraphic-result-221707/zones/europe-west3-b' does not have enough resources available to fulfill the request. Try a different zone, or try again later

[Mahmoud Sharif (Google Cloud Platform)]

Hello Rohit,

I see a few occurrences of stockouts in europe-west3-b but it was not persistent. The issue was not continuous for the last 45 days. There were stockout peaks but it was not continuous for 45 days. You must have tried it when there actually was a stockout, not when resources were available.

The GCP team strives to have the maximum number of resources available, but it cannot guarantee the availability of resources 100% of the time. 

We recommend deploying and balancing your workload across multiple zones or regions to reduce the likelihood of an outage. Please review our documentation  which outlines how to build resilient and scalable architectures on the Google Cloud Platform. Your workflows should be resilient and flexible so that they can be run in different zones/regions, thus not depending on the availability of one single zone. 

You may also try again later, once resources will be available again in the zone europe-west3-b.

Thank you

[r3...@1thefull.com]

same issue is happening at "us-central-1a".

trying to extend exist ssd storage.

[Larbi (Google Cloud Support)]

Getting a "zone resources exhausted" message is specific to that request and that moment in time. It is possible that the size or type of resource you requested is temporarily in use, try other available zone (if a different zone not crucial ) or try in different time.

[Pavel Madr]

Hello,

I'm receiving the same error today.

The zone 'us-central1-f' does not have enough resources available to fulfill the request. '(resource type:pd-standard)'.

I have a zone managed instance group and requested increase from 1 to 2 instances. us-central1-f is pickup by instance group manager, so I can't choose the zone directly.

Does it mean that Google has not enough computing power to handle my request?

[arpi...@greedygame.com]

Same issue happening with us-central1-f zone (Iowa). Is there a way for us to not over provision across a particular zone? This is frustrating for applications that require sub ms latencies and suddenly their nodes cannot scale on GKE due to unable resources in a particular region.

[Pavel Madr]

It would be great to try instance in another zone if some zone fails. I have a managed group so it can handle it by own.

[arpi...@greedygame.com]

Right, I understand that. We ended up routing traffic to some other zones. It would be great if we would get an alert as something going to be over provisioned. Currently we had kept all out GKE nodes in a single zone but now they would have to be spread out in the light of this issue.

[Rohit kumar]

Hi,

Again I am getting this error. this is so frequent. Could you please fix it permanently.

Starting VM instance "instance-2" failed. Error: The zone 'projects/seraphic-result-221707/zones/europe-west3-b' does not have enough resources available to fulfill the request. Try a different zone, or try again later.

[Rahi (Google Cloud Support)]

Hello Pavel,

The error you are getting is due to the temporary resource constraint on our end. Our goal is to make sure that there are available resources in all zones. This type of issue is rare. When a situation like this occurs, or is about to occur, our team is notified immediately and the issue is investigated. We recommend deploying and balancing your workload across multiple zones or regions to reduce the likelihood of an outage. Please review our documentation which outlines how to build resilient and scalable architectures on Google Cloud Platform.

However, you are unable to change the zone of the managed instance group once it is created. If availability is something very important to you then I would recommend using Regional Managed Instance group. Unlike zonal managed instance groups that belong to a single zone, regional managed instance groups improve your application availability by spreading your instances across multiple zones within a single region. For example, by default, a regional managed instance group in the region us-east1 will maintain an equal distribution of instances in three zones within that region: us-east1-b, us-east1-c, and us-east1-d.

I hope this helps.

[Brint Kriebel - Brasch Group]

I've been hit by this as well. Unfortunately, in an attempt to move to a Regional cluster as suggested, I'm still getting the error: "Google Compute Engine does not have enough resources available to fulfill request: us-central1-f.". This is true even when specifying that zone -f should not be used. Using "gcloud container clusters create <cluster-name> --region=us-central1 --node-locations us-central1-a,us-central1-b,us-central1-c" gives the following result:

ERROR: (gcloud.container.clusters.create) Operation [<Operation

 clusterConditions: [<StatusCondition

 code: CodeValueValuesEnum(GCE_STOCKOUT, 1)

 message: u'Try a different location, or try again later: Google Compute Engine does not have enough resources available to fulfill request: us-central1-f.'>]

 detail: u'Try a different location, or try again later: Google Compute Engine does not have enough resources available to fulfill request: us-central1-f.'

My guess is it is trying to claim a resource on each zone in the region, even if that region is not specified for use by nodes.

-Brint

[Pavel Madr]

Hello Rahi,

I'm wrong. My managed group is regional group on a region us-central1. The situation was:

- the number of instances was 1, so the group manager created an instance in us-central1-a and it worked

- afterwards I changed the number of instances to 2 and the group manager wanted to create automatically an instance in us-central1-c and it keep failing with the "resources unavailable error"

I'd expect that the group manager would not try to create the instance in us-central1-f if there are no free resources. It could create the instance in another zone, but it didn't.

It was still trying to create the instance in us-central1-f.

I tried to set the instance number of the group to 1 again, but it didn't help. It was still trying to create the instance in us-central1-f. The only solution which helped was to set the instance number to 0.

It has very strange behavior because the error blocks the whole managed group. It's serious issue as I can't rely on the group manager and autoscale the group correctly. The fix is very easy, change the managed group implementation to create an instance in another zone in case of error.

[Jason]

Hi Pavel,

The reason that a regional cluster cannot be created during a resource exhaustion is due to the fact that GKE tries to create the master node within all zones, including the zone that is suffering from resource exhaustion. Since the master node fails to create within the zone that suffers from resource exhaustion, it fails to create the cluster. Due to the fact that the creation and upkeep of the master is a managed service, users cannot control where the master node is created. 

I have created an internal issue with the GKE team to address this behavior and requested for a new feature to be added in GKE where it can create a regional cluster even when there is resource exhaustion within a zone. Since this is a request for a new feature to be added to the platform, I cannot provide an ETA on if/when this issue will be applied. I have linked the internal issue to a Public Issue Tracker where you can get updates in regards to our progress with this request. 

[Pavel Madr]

Hi Jason,

The new feature would be great. Thank you.

[sandhy...@google.com]

I am running into the same issue

Try a different location, or try again later: Google Compute Engine does not have enough resources available to fulfill request: us-central1-a.

What can I do?

[Jason]

Hi,

If you run into this issue when creating a regional cluster, then the only workaround I can provide at this time is to create a multi-zone cluster. This will allow you to choose which zones you would like to use for your cluster. In your use case, you would choose all the zones within the us-central1 region except for us-central1-a.

[Juan Carlos Calvo Jackson]

"This type of issue is rare" Hardly, this has happened to me about 7 out of 10 times, specially on weekends, like right now. And I cannot easily move my GPU instance to another region as to do so I would have to temporarily have two GPUs (to avoid risks) which would exceed my quota. Get your shit together google, I expect to be able to use my machine whenever I need to work with it and not whenever the region might be available.

On Thursday, 1 November 2018 17:21:07 UTC-3, Taame (Google Cloud Support) wrote:

Hi, 

my apologies that you’re experiencing this issue. Be assured that the team is working hard to resolve it.

Our goal is to make sure that there are available resources in all zones. This type of issue is rare. When a situation like this occurs, or is about to occur, our team is notified immediately and the issue is investigated.

We recommend deploying and balancing your workload across multiple zones or regions to reduce the likelihood of an outage. Please review our documentation which outlines how to build and design robust systems. 

I would recommend you to try again as I was able to add resources to zone “Europe-west3-c”. If this issue is still persisting. Please feel free to report it and will make sure to check further. 

As a workaround, I would recommend that you check our documentation about “Moving an Instance Between Zones” that includes information about internal/external IP. 

[Sunny J (Google Cloud Support)]

Hello Juan, 

First, my apologies that you’re experiencing this issue.

That said, please note that, Google continuously monitor its zone/region resource utilization and add new resources as per our internal processes and guidelines. However we are unable to provide you an ETA. when resources may be added or freed in the affected zone. Hence, as a workaround you can try balancing your workload in a different zone, or try again later. Furthermore, I would like to point you to this post made by "Paul Nash", who thoroughly explained the resource stock-out issue at Google Cloud Platform (GCP). 

[Juan Carlos Calvo Jackson]

too late,

I moved to aws where I've never had this issue before. Let alone so consistently.

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[Ali]

I am currently stuck for more than an hour because of this issue:

The zone 'projects/.........../zones/us-west1-b' does not have enough resources available to fulfill the request. Try a different zone, or try again later.

I see this problem exists since October( or longer before?), as I have seen the issue on StackOverflow as well. And I am getting the exact same issue now, in February, 28th,  saying it is almost March! I am very surprised/disappointed that the Google cloud is still unable to overcome such an important issue in the product, after at least 5 months of public issue reporting. 

Honestly saying, I am testing Google Cloud with the trial $300 credit, and I am thinking if I have had all my project already depending on this and got stuck, how frustrated I would be!! 

I might give a chance to other Cloud service providers to check if they can avoid this issue.

[Jason]

Hi Ali,

I can understand the frustration; however, the zone "us-west1-b" has not been out of resources for the past 5 months. If users create all of their resources within the same zone, then there is a higher chance of running into this specific issue. This is why it is suggested to spread resources across multiple zones as mentioned by Sunny.

[Pavel Madr]

Hi Sunny,

Spread resources across multiple zones is NOT the solution. We have a regional group spread into 4 zones and it happens too (by the way we pay a lot of money for gcloud).

I agree, it's really frustrating because when the error appears the autoscaling algorithm is frozen. It can't create an instance in another "good" zone automatically but it's still trying to create the instance in the "bad" zone.

[Jordan Sweat]

Ali, l am also having this problem and it is mid August 2019! Please let me know what you did to resolve this error. Everything I am reading does not have a clear conclusion and it is ridiculous that we have to go through so much trouble to change regions and work on our VM instance. I currently have a project that I cannot get to and I am furious because the program will not open anywhere besides the instance I opened it in. Very disappointed with google and this service. If anyone ask any answers or reccomendations please help!

The zone 'projects/keen-ally-248522/zones/us-east4-b' does not have enough resources available to fulfill the request. '(resource type:compute)'.

[Venkat Ramanan Renganathan]

I am also facing similar problem. I had assigned static IP to my instance so want to confirm if static IP is indeed assigned to the instance. So i stopped the instance and when i was trying to restart the instance i am getting this error.

Starting VM instance '********' failed. Error: The zone 'projects/*******/zones/asia-south1-c' does not have enough resources available to fulfill the request. Try a different zone, or try again later.

I have very particular reason to be located in that region and cannot change the region Just like that. Don't know what to do, i couldn't find any solution to the problem. If any one has solution please let me know.

 We are going live soon and as of now our usage will be less so no point in creating instances in various zones and regions and for some unique business reason we want to have the data in this zone. 

The solution in the forum is not appropriate, Google support please provide a proper solution.

[mbazzi]

Hi Venkat,

This type of issue is rare. Our team has already been notified and this issue is being investigated.

I understand that this specific region is of importance to your business. I would recommend to keep on trying to deploy an instance. I cant provide an ETA, but this case is being currently worked on by our team.

For future reference I would recommend reviewing this documentation that recommends distributing your instances across zones to increase availability. You can also review this other link, where you will find some best practices for designing robust systems on GCE (Google Compute Engine).

[Denis A]

For last two weeks we have issue provisioning instances in northamerica-northeast1-a and northamerica-northeast1-c,
very serious issue for us as we have to provision our resource sonly in Canada Region (northamerica-northeast1)

Error is:

Error: Error waiting for creating GKE NodePool:

 (1) Google Compute Engine: Not all instances running in IGM after 13.097573304s. Expect 1. Current errors: [GCE_STOCKOUT]: Instance 'gke-k8s-cluster-ca-dev-microservices-b1301bf5-45fm' creation failed: The zone 'projects/application-ca-dev-/zones/northamerica-northeast1-a' does not have enough resources available to fulfill the request.  Try a different zone, or try again later
 (2) Google Compute Engine: Not all instances running in IGM after 21.172301258s. Expect 1. Current errors: [GCE_STOCKOUT]: Instance 'gke-k8s-cluster-ca-dev-microservices-5aa6bf90-f9pl' creation failed: The zone 'projects/application-ca-dev-/zones/northamerica-northeast1-c' does not have enough resources available to fulfill the request.  Try a different zone, or try again later.

[anarayanaswamy]

Hello Denis,

The error you are getting is due to the temporary resource constraint on our end. Our goal is to make sure that there are available resources in all zones. This type of issue is rare. When a situation like this occurs, or is about to occur, our team is notified immediately and the issue is investigated. We recommend deploying and balancing your workload across multiple zones or regions to reduce the likelihood of an outage. Please review our documentation which outlines how to build resilient and scalable architectures on Google Cloud Platform.

[eChoice India]

I am getting the same error since yesterday-

...........asia-south1-b' does not have enough resources available to fulfill the request. Try a different zone, or try again later.

[Charlie Reitzel]

This is a fairly regular occurrence (Google "does not have enough resources available to fulfill").  I guess it's GCP's little way of keeping us from putting all our eggs in one zone ... :--)   Kidding aside, it looks like they're growing and are not quite keeping up with demand.   

Since you cannot move a VM instance to another zone, per se.  I found the quickest way was to:

1. Mark the boot disk for the VM as "Keep on Delete" (so the disk sticks around when you delete the VM instance).
2. Delete the VM instance (to detach boot disk from VM)
3. Create a snapshot from the disk (to make available in all zones for region).
4. Create a new VM in a different zone, same region, specifying the snapshot created in step #3 as the boot disk.

These steps take a couple minutes in the console.

hth,

Charlie

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[Hasanul Murad]

The error you are getting is due to the temporary resource constraint on our end. We are continuously expanding capacity, so you can try again later. However, the immediate solution is to create your cloud resources in a different zone.

 

You can distribute instances across zones to increase availability following this link. You can explore this link to know some best practices for designing robust systems on GCE. You can also review this documentation which outlines how to build resilient and scalable architectures on Google Cloud Platform.

 

Getting a "zone resources exhausted" message is specific to that request and that moment in time. It is possible that the size or type of resource you requested is temporarily in use, try another available zone (if a different zone is not crucial ) or try in different time.

 

Unfortunately, there are rare occurrences, therefore we are continuously expanding our capacity.

[Declan McArdle]

You can move an instance to a different zone in same region.  Look up gcloud compute...

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[Charlie Reitzel]

Do you mean: gcloud compute instances move --help

Next time it happens, I'll give it a try.  Thanks

[yesubabu kukkala]

Hi,i got this problem 2days back,i am unable to start my vm can anyone let me know the reason why vm is not started

[pralove]

We recommend deploying and balancing your workload across multiple zones and regions to reduce the likelihood of an outage and have access to multiple resource pools when you need to expand quickly[1].

Please review our documentation which outlines how to build resilient and scalable architectures on Google Cloud Platform.

This is the documentation about best practices for designing roboust systems on Google Compute Engine.

We are working hard to make this issue rare.

[ANAND KUMAR]

Starting VM instance "ubuntu01" failed. Error: The zone 'projects/skilful-racer-273904/zones/asia-south1-a' does not have enough resources available to fulfill the request. Try a different zone, or try again later.

I am getting the same issue 

On Friday, November 2, 2018 at 1:51:07 AM UTC+5:30, Taame (Google Cloud Support) wrote:

Hi, 

my apologies that you’re experiencing this issue. Be assured that the team is working hard to resolve it.

Our goal is to make sure that there are available resources in all zones. This type of issue is rare. When a situation like this occurs, or is about to occur, our team is notified immediately and the issue is investigated.

We recommend deploying and balancing your workload across multiple zones or regions to reduce the likelihood of an outage. Please review our documentation which outlines how to build and design robust systems. 

I would recommend you to try again as I was able to add resources to zone “Europe-west3-c”. If this issue is still persisting. Please feel free to report it and will make sure to check further. 

As a workaround, I would recommend that you check our documentation about “Moving an Instance Between Zones” that includes information about internal/external IP. 

 

[Digil (Google Cloud Platform Support)]

Hello Anand,

As the other community support member suggested, you need to try the following:

1. Re-deploy the resource in a different zone other than asia-south1-a (as a work-around)

2. As mentioned in the error message, try re-deploying the resource later.

If the issue is keep persisting, I would strongly recommend you to report and discuss it with sales team for further assistance. 

[Pawas Goyal]

I am also getting this error.Starting VM instance 'instance-1' failed. Error: The zone 'projects/silver-tempo-279508/zones/asia-south1-b' does not have enough resources available to fulfill the request. Try a different zone, or try again later

and nothing is working out. I am goning to different zones asia-south-a/c

I am surprised and said that this issue is coming in panel and no way out. 

[Bruno (Google Cloud Support)]

Please be aware that GCP have currently an issue on creating and deleting GCE instances.
For more details or further information, refer to Google Status

[Ivan Zahariev]

I have an Instance Group configured to deploy in all zones: "europe-west3 (3/3 zones)". There is only 1 instance in the group. But a rolling replace has stuck with ZONE_RESOURCE_POOL_EXHAUSTED in a single zone and won't try any of the other two available zones. More info: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/64506258/gce-instance-group-stuck-for-hours-in-zone-resource-pool-exhausted

I will appreciate it if you have any hints how to avoid this in the future.

[Cameron Thomas Otway]

Hey Ivan, I see that you've made some progress in that Stack Overflow question. Those resources for the particular zone are not available and we do not have an ETA on when they will be. This is an extremely  rare event and Google takes these things seriously. please follow this doc for more information.

[Ivan Zahariev]

Hi there. I'm trying to report a bug here but everybody is bombarding me with the same docs reference which doesn't fully apply in this case :)

It's a temporary problem, that's for sure, but the control where to create the VM is not in my hands. Managed Instance Groups manage the VMs automatically and I find it incorrect that MIG tries the same zone over and over again, despite the fact that the VM creation fails with ZONE_RESOURCE_POOL_EXHAUSTED. By the way I'm requesting the smallest VM instance type. 

The correct behavior is that MIG try each zone at least in a round-robin fashion (or use a more clever algo because it has internal information about the resource availability).

[Kanon Khan]

thoma.......  said right .

https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/troubleshooting/troubleshooting-instances#vm-not-created

Also you need to look on this comment . by - Paul - Apr 19, 2017

https://groups.google.com/g/gce-discussion/c/asJA71NDkZM/m/2qon8TQZBQAJ