Google cloud's glcoud compute instance create gives error "The resource projects/{ourID}/global/images/family/debian-8 was not found

Question

We are using a server I created on Google Cloud Platform to create and manage the other servers over there. But when trying to create a new server from the Linux command line with the GCloud compute instances create function we receive the following error:

marco@ans-mgmt-01:~/gcloud$ ./create_gcloud_instance.sh app-tst-04 tst,backend-server,bootstrap home-tst 10.20.22.104
ERROR: (gcloud.compute.instances.create) Could not fetch resource:
- The resource 'projects/REMOVED_OUR_PROJECTID/global/images/family/debian-8' was not found

Our script looks like this:

#!/bin/bash                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
if [ "$#" -ne 4 ]; then                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        
    echo "Usage: create_gcloud_instance <instance_name> <tags> <subnet_name> <server_ip>"                                                                                                                                                                                                                
    exit 1
fi

set -e

INSTANCE_NAME=$1
TAGS=$2
SERVER_SUBNET=$3
SERVER_IP=$4

gcloud compute --project "REMOVED OUR PROJECT ID" instances create "$INSTANCE_NAME" \
    --zone "europe-west1-c" \
    --machine-type "f1-micro" \
    --network "cloudnet" \
    --subnet "$SERVER_SUBNET" \
    --no-address \
    --private-network-ip="$SERVER_IP" \
    --maintenance-policy "MIGRATE" \
    --scopes "https://www.googleapis.com/auth/devstorage.read_only","https://www.googleapis.com/auth/logging.write","https://www.googleapis.com/auth/monitoring.write","https://www.googleapis.com/auth/servicecontrol","https://www.googleapis.com/auth/service.management.readonly","https://www.googleapis.com/auth/trace.append" \
    --service-account "default" \
    --tags "$TAGS" \
    --image-family "debian-8" \
    --boot-disk-size "10" \
    --boot-disk-type "pd-ssd" \
    --boot-disk-device-name "bootdisk-$INSTANCE_NAME" \


./clean_known_hosts.sh $INSTANCE_NAME

On the google cloud console (console.cloud.google.com) I enabled the cloud api access scope for the ans-mgmt-01 server and also tried to create a server from there. That's working without problems.

Answer 1

The problem is that gcloud is looking for the image family in your project and not the debian-cloud project where it really exists.

This can be fixed by simply using --image-project debian-cloud.

This way instead of looking for projects/{yourID}/global/images/family/debian-8, it will look for projects/debian-cloud/global/images/family/debian-8.