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Ebin Davis
Ebin Davis

Reputation: 6139

ERROR: (gcloud.compute.instances.stop) Could not fetch resource

I want to stop a vm instance running on a particular project. I use

gcloud compute instances stop

I can stop a instance for a project. But when i change the current project to another project, i cant stop the instance running using the same command. Its showing the error,

gcloud compute instances stop instance-1-2

ERROR: (gcloud.compute.instances.start) Could not fetch resource: - The resource 'projects/myproject/zones/asia-southeast1-a/instances/instance-1-2' was not found

I set the project using : gcloud compute set project projectname

Upvotes: 0

Views: 4573

Answers (3)

Maoz Zadok
Maoz Zadok

Reputation: 5930

I wanted to stop or start multiple instances regardless of the zone they are located in and had the same error. my solution was to create a tag and run the following command with the sub-command output that returns the format of projects/<project-name>/zones/<zone>/instances/<instance-name>

Stop multiple instances by tag

gcloud compute instances stop $(gcloud compute instances list --project ${PROJECT} --filter="tags.items=(autoshutdown)"  --format="value(selfLink.scope(v1))") --project ${PROJECT}

Start multiple instances by tag

gcloud compute instances start $(gcloud compute instances list --project ${PROJECT} --filter="tags.items=(autoshutdown)"  --format="value(selfLink.scope(v1))") --project ${PROJECT}

Upvotes: 0

Ebin Davis
Ebin Davis

Reputation: 6139

If you run the command gcloud compute instances stop , it will stop the instances in the zone which you had already set.

You can set the zone using : gcloud config set compute/zone ZONE

and region using : gcloud config set compute/region REGION

where ZONE=zone which you want to assign and REGION=region you want to assign

For the above scenario , do :

gcloud config set compute/zone ZONE_OF_instance-1-2

then

gcloud compute instance stop instance-1-2

Refer: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/gcloud-compute/#set_default_zone_and_region_in_your_local_client

Upvotes: 3

cherba
cherba

Reputation: 8980

When you run

gcloud compute instances stop instance-1-2

this command is underscpecified, instance-1-2 is lacks project and zone. Since that was not specified on command line project (and zone) is deduced from properties.

Note that the command to set project property is NOT gcloud compute set project projectname, but gcloud config set project projectname.

If you want this command to work regardless of property settings you can use full path to resource

gcloud compute instances stop projects/projectname/zones/asia-southeast1-a/instances/instance-1-2

Or use command line flags

gcloud compute instances stop instance-1-2 --project projectname --zone asia-southeast1-a

Upvotes: 4

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