gsutil make bucket command [gsutil mb] is not working

Question

I am trying to create a bucket using gsutil mb command:

gsutil mb -c DRA -l US-CENTRAL1 gs://some-bucket-to-my-gs

But I am getting this error message:

Creating gs://some-bucket-to-my-gs/...
BadRequestException: 400 Invalid argument.

I am following the documentation from here

What is the reason for this type of error?

Solution 1

One reason this error can occur (confirmed in chat with the question author) is that you have an invalid default_project_id configured in your .boto file. Ensure that ID matches your project ID in the Google Developers Console

If you can make a bucket successfully using the Google Developers Console, but not using "gsutil mb", this is a good thing to check.

Solution 2

I got the same error. I was because I used the wrong location. The location parameter expects a region without specifying witch zone.

Eg.

sutil mb -p ${TF_ADMIN} -l europe-west1-b  gs://${TF_ADMIN}

Should have been

sutil mb -p ${TF_ADMIN} -l europe-west1  gs://${TF_ADMIN}

Solution 3

I was receiving the same error for the same command while using gsutil as well as the web console. Interestingly enough, changing my bucket name from "google-gatk-test" to "gatk" allowed the request to go through. The original name does not appear to violate bucket naming conventions.

Playing with the bucket name is worth trying if anyone else is running into this issue.

Comments

[beepscore]

For me terminal showed BadRequestException: 400 Use of this bucket name is restricted. My attempted bucket name contained "google" and cloud.google.com/storage/docs/naming explicitly states: Bucket names cannot begin with the "goog" prefix. Bucket names cannot contain "google" or close misspellings, such as "g00gle".