PERMISSION_DENIED: Insufficient project quota to satisfy request: resource

Question

I am following a tutorial using an account with $300 credits so I am limited to what I can do generally but I would want to know what the contents of this error I get when trying to resize a node-pool or add another node-pool to my gcp project, here is the error message:

ERROR: (gcloud.container.clusters.resize) PERMISSION_DENIED: Insufficient project quota to satisfy request: resource "CPUS_ALL_REGIONS": request requires '9.0' and is short '3.0'. project has a quota of '12.0' with '6.0' available.

And for the creation command this is the error:

ERROR: (gcloud.container.node-pools.create) ResponseError: code=403, message= (1) insufficient regional quota to satisfy request: resource "CPUS": request requires '3.0' and is short '1.0'. project has a quota of '8.0' with '2.0' available.

The parts that interest me are:

• insufficient project quota
• request requires '9.0' and is short '3.0', and
• project has a quota of '12.0' with '6.0' available

And the commands I am using are:

gcloud container clusters resize my-reginal-cluster --region us-central1 --node-pool default-pool --size 4

and

gcloud container node-pools create my-pool --num-nodes=1 --cluster my-reginal-cluster --region us-central1

Answer 1

Above answer from user2047665 is correct. I tried with --num-nodes=1. CPU error resolved. But new issue came wrt DISK.

ResponseError: code=403, message=Insufficient regional quota to satisfy request: resource "SSD_TOTAL_GB": request requires '300.0' and is short '80.0'. project has a quota of '250.0' with '220.0' available

So I have also added --disk-size

gcloud container clusters create --machine-type=e2-medium --region=us-central1 --num-nodes=1 --disk-size=10 lab-cluster

It works

Answer 2

By default create cluster command tries to spin up 9 nodes (3 nodes in 3 availability zones) for the availability regions. You can limit the number of nodes by adding --num-nodes parameter in create cluster command.

Answer 3

For the first error i would suggest you to follow this Quota Increase documentation to request an increase in the quota. Otherwise delete unused resources or deploy a setup with less CPU requirements.

For the second error, insufficient regional quota meas that the region it's running short on resources. You must deploy a setup with less resources or in another region.