GCP Number of projects limit and project deletion

[Stepan Stipl]

Hi,
I've posted a question to Server Fault about this (https://serverfault.com/questions/925345/gcp-projects-limit-and-immediate-deletion), not sure which one is a better place, but I would love to get some clarification on this topic. I have two related questions re. GCP and limit on a number of projects:

A) Is there a hard limit on the number of projects allowed per organization? I know the default limit can be increased, just curious if there's any ceiling. Two reasons:

- We're bringing projects under automation, therefore we need to test this and create/delete projects more often.
- We're considering using project per customer model, and I'm wondering if this might limit us in the future?

B) Do deleted projects count against the limit?

I'm experiencing some strange behavior - I was unable to create a new project, even after deleting one, but after some time (24h or so) I was able to create a new project without actually changing anything in the meantime. It seems like there's a time-window when deleted projects still do count against the limit, and after which they don't? I would like to understand the specifics of this behavior.


Thanks a lot for any clarification on the topic. I was pointed towards [1] & [2], but none of those documents answers my questions.
Cheers, Stepan

[1] https://cloud.google.com/resource-manager/docs/creating-managing-projects#managing_project_quotas
[2] https://cloud.google.com/resource-manager/docs/creating-managing-projects#shutting_down_projects

[Digil (Google Cloud Platform Support)]

I can see that there has been provided a good explanation for both your concerns in the 'serverfault'. Please go through it. I hope this helps.

[Stepan Stipl]

Thanks Digil,
it does help, the answer on Server Fault pretty much covers all my questions.

Is there any advice on how to deal with this if we want to test
project creation and deletion as part of our CI? It's kind of
important part of our automation code, so we would like to run e2e
test against real GCP cloud, but as the CI gets triggered for each
PR/merge to master, this would leads to possibly many short-lived
projects and hitting the limit.

Cheers, Stepan

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[Digil (Google Cloud Platform Support)]

Please follow community support member's comment in the 'Serverfault.com' as your concern is addressed there.