Issue:¶

Creation of new host over GCE fails due to the following error message:
"zone_name is required for this operation"

Reproducing steps:¶

1. compute resource was created, with filling out the following fields: name, provider (google), google project id, client email, certificate path (using the service account created in GCP) & zone (in this case us-central1-a)
2. location and organisation we're set to this compute resource
3. verification was made to ensure i can "see" the already running instances hosted in GCE from foreman
4. configuration of compute profiles and images to set the GCE provided instance types according to my needs
5. setting up finish template to the CentOS operating system that were configured as images
6. creation of a new host, after filling in the following classes i've got the error noted at the top of this report
• Host - name, organisation, location, host group, deploy on, compute profile, environment
• Network - domain
• OS - Architecture, OS, Image
• Virtual Machine - Machine Type, Network

Log event:¶

• Started POST "/hosts" for <IP> at 2014-10-22 13:53:52 +0000
  Processing by HostsController#create as */*
  Parameters: {"utf8"=>"✓", "authenticity_token"=><AUTH_KEY>, "host"=>{"name"=>"davetest", "organization_id"=>"6", "location_id"=>"11", "hostgroup_id"=>"1", "compute_resource_i
  d"=>"19", "compute_profile_id"=>"4", "environment_id"=>"2", "puppetclass_ids"=>[""], "managed"=>"true", "progress_report_id"=>"[FILTERED]", "type"=>"Host::Managed", "compute_attributes"=>{"machine_type"=>"1290855
  9320241551184", "network"=><NETWORK NAME>, "external_ip"=>"0", "image_id"=>"2365868823508405185"}, "domain_id"=>"8", "realm_id"=>"", "mac"=>"", "ip"=>"", "interfaces_attributes"=>{"new_interfaces"=>{"_destroy"=>"f
  alse", "type"=>"Nic::Managed", "mac"=>"", "name"=>"", "domain_id"=>"", "ip"=>"", "provider"=>"IPMI"}}, "architecture_id"=>"1", "operatingsystem_id"=>"12", "provision_method"=>"image", "build"=>"1", "ptable_id"=>"
  ", "disk"=>"", "root_pass"=>"[FILTERED]", "is_owned_by"=>"13-Users", "enabled"=>"1", "model_id"=>"", "comment"=>"", "overwrite"=>"false"}, "capabilities"=>"image", "provider"=>"GCE"}
  Adding Compute instance for <INSTANCE NAME>

• Failed to create a compute <INSTANCE NAME> (us-central1-a-Google) instance <INSTANCE NAME>: zone_name is required for this operation

• Rolling back due to a problem: [Set up compute instance <INSTANCE NAME> 2 failed [#<Host::Managed id: nil, name: <INSTANCE NAME>, ip: nil, last_compile: nil, last_freshcheck: nil, last_report: nil, updated_at: nil, source_file_id: nil, created_at: nil, mac: nil, root_pass:_<ROOT_PASS>_, serial: nil, puppet_status: 0, domain_id: 8, architecture_id: 1, operatingsystem_id: 12, environment_id: 2, subnet_id: nil, ptable_id: nil, medium_id: nil, build: true, comment: "", disk: "", installed_at: nil, model_id: nil, hostgroup_id: 1, owner_id: 13, owner_type: "User", enabled: true, puppet_ca_proxy_id: 1, managed: true, use_image: nil, image_file: nil, uuid: nil, compute_resource_id: 19, puppet_proxy_id: 1, certname: nil, image_id: 2, organization_id: 6, location_id: 11, type: "Host::Managed", otp: nil, realm_id: nil, compute_profile_id: 4, provision_method: "image">, :setCompute]]
  Failed to save: Failed to create a compute <COMPUTE RESOURCE NAME> (us-central1-a-Google) instance <INSTANCE NAME>: zone_name is required for this operation