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You're doing me a scare. I'm in the evaluation phase with them. Maybe I'm missing something here, but this is not at all what the linked post says.

"We are investigating an issue with Google Kubernetes Engine node pool creation through Cloud Console UI."

So, it's a UI console issue, it appears you can still manage

"Affected customers can use gcloud command [1] in order to create new Node Pools. [1]"

Similarly, it actually was resolved in Friday, but they forgot to mark it as so.

"The issue with Google Kubernetes Engine Node Pool creation through the Cloud Console UI had been resolved as of Friday, 2018-11-09 14:30 US/Pacific."

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You are right about the Google blog content itself not indicating three days of outage. Turns out they just forgot to mark that particular issue as resolved on Friday, as you point out. This is my mistake. I would update my comment to reflect this, but it doesn't seem to allow an edit at this point.

The items I put down in my comment are based largely on user reports, though (there isn't much else to go on). And I mean these items as questions (i.e. "is this accurate?"). Folks here on HN have definitely been reporting ongoing problems and seem to be suggesting that they are not resolved and are actually larger in scope than the Google blog post addressed.

Someone from Google commented here a few hours ago indicating Google was looking into it. And other folks here are reporting that they don't have the same problems. So it's kind of an open question what's going on.

I'm in the evaluation phase too. And I've found a lot to like about GCP. I'm hoping the problems are understandable.

I've been failing all weekend to create nodes in a GKE cluster through either the UI console or gcloud. Even right now I can't get any nodes to spin up.

Edit: I finally got my cluster up and running by removing all nodes, letting it process for a few minutes, then adding new nodes.

We've had no issues deleting and creating node pools this weekend (on asia-east1-a). No other problems noticed either.

As of this morning, I am still unable to reliably start my docker+machine autoscaling instances. In all cases the error is "Error: The zone <my project> does not have enough resources available to fulfill the request" An instance in us-central1-a has refused to start since last Thursday or Friday.

I created a new instance in us-west2-c, which worked briefly but began to fail midday Friday, and kept failing through the weekend.

On Saturday I created yet another clone in northamerica-northeast1-b. That worked Saturday and Sunday, but this morning, it is failing to start. Fortunately my us-west2-c instance has begun to work again, but I'm having doubts about continuing to use GCE as we scale up.

And yet, the status page says all services are available.

If you run your own k8s on GCP, you are not going to be affected by GKE.

I can't comment regarding GKE as we don't use that particular service, however we are very heavy users of many other GCP services, including Compute, Datastore, BigQuery, Pub/Sub, Storage, Functions, Speech, and others. Zero issues this weekend, everything is running 100% as any normal day.

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