Can't provision any compute instance in GCP nor increase NCPU quota

Question

Since many days I can't provision any compute engine instance in my google cloud business account.

Billing is enabled on the project, I can't tell what's wrong from my side.

I sent a first request to the support before yesterday, yesterday, and today again, and here is a screenshot of their answer.

I'm lost, I don't understand why they ask to check with their sales team.

Here my terraform output error :

google_compute_instance.lykanda-backend: Creating...
google_compute_instance.lykanda-backend: Still creating... [10s elapsed]
Error: Error waiting for instance to create: Quota 'N2_CPUS' exceeded. Limit: 0.0 in region europe-west3.
on compute.tf line 88, in resource "google_compute_instance" "lykanda-backend":
88: resource "google_compute_instance" "lykanda-backend" {

My compute instance block code :

resource "google_compute_instance" "lykanda-backend" {
 project = "869410787656"
 zone     = "europe-west3-a"
 name     = "lykanda-backend"
 machine_type = "n2-standard-2"
 boot_disk {
  initialize_params {
   image = "debian-cloud/debian-9"
  }
 }
 network_interface {
  network = google_compute_network.lykanda.self_link
  subnetwork = google_compute_subnetwork.lykanda-network.self_link
  access_config {
   nat_ip = google_compute_address.lykanda-static-ip-address.address
  }
 }
 # metadata = {
 #  ssh-keys = join("\n", [for user, key in var.ssh_keys : "${user}:${key}"])
 # }
 service_account {
  scopes = ["userinfo-email", "compute-ro", "storage-ro"]
 }
 allow_stopping_for_update = true
}

Yes I did, but just filled a form and got an acknowledgement saying that they will be in touch with me shortly — nixmind

Serhii Rohoza Serhii Rohoza · Accepted Answer · 2020-04-22T17:17:57

This issue related only to your GCP quotas and it's not connected to your deployment:

Error: Error waiting for instance to create: Quota 'N2_CPUS' exceeded. Limit: 0.0 in region europe-west3

Actually, Stack Overflow community can do nothing with such issues.

Have a look at the email from Google Cloud Support again:

... we are enable to proceed with your request, for this resource was quite high and need capacity planning planning with our sales team. We recommend you to contact sales team for capacity planning ...

and

... note that COMMITTED_N2_CPUS COMMITTED_N2_CPUS is for discount and real quota N2_CPUS without committed words ...

As you can see, because N2 CPUs are on high demand, they aren't available. In addition, please check the documentation Resource quotas and Committed use discounts to find more information about quotas and discounts.

To solve this issue you can follow steps below:

Contact sales team, as it was suggested by Google Cloud Support, and ask for increase of quota N2_CPUS.
Try to request increase of quota N2_CPUS for other region/zone where N2 machine types available.

Can't provision any compute instance in GCP nor increase NCPU quota

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