How to make a regional cluster in GKE w/ deployment-manager? - google-cloud-platform

Question

"zone" is a required field when I try to create but it says in the documentation that it is "deprecated". This is kinda misleading. Then everytime I include "zone". It is the one followed; Let us say I put "asia-east2-a" then it will be a zonal where the master node is in asia-east2-a.
Below is my jinja template
resources:
- name: practice-gke-clusters
type: container.v1.cluster
properties:
zone: asia-east2-a
cluster:
name: practice-gke-clusters
location: asia-east2
network: $(ref.practice-gke-network.selfLink)
subnetwork: $(ref.practice-gke-network-subnet-1.selfLink)
nodePools:
- name: default-pool
config:
machineType: n1-standard-1
diskSizeGb: 10
diskType: pd-ssd
preemptible: True
oauthScopes:
- https://www.googleapis.com/auth/compute
- https://www.googleapis.com/auth/devstorage.read_only
- https://www.googleapis.com/auth/logging.write
- https://www.googleapis.com/auth/monitoring
initialNodeCount: 1
autoscaling:
enabled: True
minNodeCount: 1
maxNodeCount: 100
management:
autoUpgrade: False
autoRepair: True
loggingService: logging.googleapis.com
monitoringService: monitoring.googleapis.com

Answer 1

Currently v1 API does not support the creation of regional clusters. However you can use v1beta1 API which supports this feature and use the following resource type:
type: gcp-types/container-v1beta1:projects.locations.clusters
Rather than using the 'zone' or 'region' key in the YAML, you would instead use a parent property that includes locations.
So your YAML would look something like this (replace PROJECT_ID and REGION with your own).
resources:
- type: gcp-types/container-v1beta1:projects.locations.clusters # previously container.v1.clusters
name: source-cluster
properties:
parent: projects/PROJECT_ID/locations/REGION
cluster:
name: source
initialNodeCount: 3