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Answer: Request additional Compute Engine quota in the GCP Console.
The error message indicates a shortage of CPU quota in the specified region for the Compute Engine resources required by the GKE cluster. Since GKE clusters utilize Compute Engine VMs for nodes, the correct action is to request an increase in the Compute Engine CPU quota through the GCP Console. This directly addresses the quota limitation causing the command to fail. The other options either misidentify the quota type needed (GKE quota instead of Compute Engine quota) or propose indirect solutions that do not immediately resolve the quota issue.
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You are creating a Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster and run this command:
gcloud container clusters create large-cluster --num-nodes 200
gcloud container clusters create large-cluster --num-nodes 200
The command fails with the error:
insufficient regional quota to satisfy request: resource "CPUS": request requires '200.0' and is short '176.0', project has a quota of '24.0' with '24.0'
insufficient regional quota to satisfy request: resource "CPUS": request requires '200.0' and is short '176.0', project has a quota of '24.0' with '24.0'
You want to resolve the issue. What should you do?
A
Request additional GKE quota in the GCP Console.
B
Request additional Compute Engine quota in the GCP Console.
C
Open a support case to request additional GKE quota.
D
Decouple services in the cluster, and rewrite new clusters to function with fewer cores.
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