cannot deploy managed VMs

[pdknsk]

For about 1-2 hours now. It alternates between these errors. This is bad. (I wonder if 1.9.24 is to blame.)

ERROR: (gcloud.preview.app.deploy) Giving up due to transient errors. Please try again.

ERROR: (gcloud.preview.app.deploy) Not enough VMs ready (0/1 ready, 1 still deploying).

[pdknsk]

I've noticed in Operations that it creates an instance, deletes it within in a minute, creates it again (with the same hostname) and so forth. This continues a few times. Some minutes later gcloud quits with an error.

[pdknsk]

Still the case. Filed a production issue.

https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=12135

[pdknsk]

Just want to add that I've found the problem, in case anyone is curious. It was a line that I added to the .dockerignore file. I'm not sure why. It has an interesting and potentially very expensive (due to 10 minute penalty for creating an instance) effect. Instances keep getting created and deleted every 1-2 minutes perpetually, until the module is manually deleted.

$ cat vm/.dockerignore 

.dockerignore

Dockerfile

app.yaml

[Nick (Cloud Platform Support)]

Hey pdknsk,

I was following the issue and looking into it in the public issue tracker thread you created. While it's not generally a good idea to cross-post issues like this, since the forum here is meant for more general discussion rather than specific technical issues, I must say it's excellent net etiquette to at least have updated the multiple locations you posted the issue to with the solution!

Have a great day,

-- Nick

[pdknsk]

Basically I followed up here to say that I'm to blame, not Google.