Google Cloud Runbooks
GCE, GKE, Cloud Run, IAM, and networking failures inside Google Cloud.
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gcloud compute ssh <INSTANCE> times out or reports Connection refused
gcloud run services describe shows latest revision in state not serving
Cloud Run container OOMs and restarts under normal traffic
curl to the Cloud Run URL returns 401 Unauthorized
gsutil cp/ls fails with AccessDeniedException: 403
Role was just granted but calls still fail with Permission Denied
gcloud compute instances list shows the instance in TERMINATED state
gcloud compute instances list shows PROVISIONING for minutes
gcloud container node-pools list shows node pool state UNKNOWN or unhealthy
Pod logs show permission denied when calling GCP APIs
Pods stuck in ImagePullBackOff or ErrImagePull
App logs show 'too many connections' from the database driver
gcloud sql instances describe shows dataDiskSizeGb at capacity
Downloads via signed URL fail with 'The given URL is not valid' or 403
Function logs show Function execution took too long, finished with status: 500
Function returns 429 RESOURCE_EXHAUSTED under load
Calls authenticate with an old service account key that now fails
gcloud compute instances describe shows a disk in state DETACHING
gcloud compute instances start returns error GCE_INTERNAL_ERROR
Pending pods never get nodes even under sustained load
gcloud container clusters list shows the cluster with state UPGRADING for a long time
Reads from the replica return stale data
gsutil ls shows the object missing after an accidental delete
gsutil cp fails with 403 'denied by VPC Service Controls' or PERMISSION_DENIED
Outbound requests from VMs time out while inbound to the VPC works