Unable to create instance from the Google Cloud SDK in a project or browse instances

Question

I am unable to connect to a project on Google Cloud using the cloud SDK. I want to upload file on my instance using SDK. The error I am getting is:

You are now logged in as [[email protected]].
Your current project is [Trial-2015-1].  You can change this setting by running:
  $ gcloud config set project PROJECT

C:\Program Files\Google\Cloud SDK>gcloud compute instances list

NAME ZONE MACHINE_TYPE INTERNAL_IP EXTERNAL_IP STATUS
ERROR: (gcloud.compute.instances.list) Some requests did not succeed:
 - Invalid value 'Trial-2015-1'. Values must match the following regular expression: '(?:(?:[-a-z0-9]{1,63}\.)*(?:[a-z](
?:[-a-z0-9]{0,61}[a-z0-9])?):)?(?:[0-9]{1,19}|(?:[a-z](?:[-a-z0-9]{0,61}[a-z0-9])?))'


    C:\Program Files\Google\Cloud SDK>gcloud compute instances create instance-2 --image centos-6 --zone uscentral1-a

NAME ZONE MACHINE_TYPE INTERNAL_IP EXTERNAL_IP STATUS
ERROR: (gcloud.compute.instances.create) Failed to find image for alias [centos-6] in public image project [centos-cloud
]. Try specifying a different image using [--image].
 - Invalid value 'Trial-2015-1'. Values must match the following regular expression: '(?:(?:[-a-z0-9]{1,63}\.)*(?:[a-z](
?:[-a-z0-9]{0,61}[a-z0-9])?):)?(?:[0-9]{1,19}|(?:[a-z](?:[-a-z0-9]{0,61}[a-z0-9])?))'


    C:\Program Files\Google\Cloud SDK>gcloud compute instances create instance-2 --image opensuse-13 --zone uscentral1-a

NAME ZONE MACHINE_TYPE INTERNAL_IP EXTERNAL_IP STATUS
ERROR: (gcloud.compute.instances.create) Failed to find image for alias [opensuse-13] in public image project [opensuse-
cloud]. Try specifying a different image using [--image].
 - Invalid value 'Trial-2015-1'. Values must match the following regular expression: '(?:(?:[-a-z0-9]{1,63}\.)*(?:[a-z](
?:[-a-z0-9]{0,61}[a-z0-9])?):)?(?:[0-9]{1,19}|(?:[a-z](?:[-a-z0-9]{0,61}[a-z0-9])?))'

Answer 1

If you look carefully at the complex RE the error message displays:

'(?:(?:[-a-z0-9]{1,63}\.)*(?:[a-z](

?:[-a-z0-9]{0,61}[a-z0-9])?):)?(?:[0-9]{1,19}|(?:a-z?))'

you'll spot that all the letters there are lowercase -- always carefully expressed as a-z.

Trial-2015-1 starts with an uppercase letter, thus it's not deemed a valid project name.

Are you sure that your project isn't actually named trial-2015-1, with a leading lowercase initial...?