# Issue creating instances on GCE

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/issue-creating-instances-on-gce/20026>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [December 15, 2015, 10:00pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/issue-creating-instances-on-gce/20026 "2015-12-15T22:00:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![dean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3be4f8/32.png) [@dean](https://forum.ansible.com/u/dean)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2015, 10:00pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/issue-creating-instances-on-gce/20026/1 "2015-12-15T22:00:02Z")

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I am testing the creation of instances on GCE but cannot get anything to work. This is a brand new install of Ansible. Details of the playbook and error are below.

Thanks in advance for the help.

$ ansible-playbook test.yml -vv  
———————ERROR————————  
PLAY [deploy GCE instances] \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*

TASK: [launch instances] \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*  
 REMOTE\_MODULE gce network=gce-it-corp-network project\_id=wepay-it-01 machine\_type=g1-small pem\_file=/tmp/downloads/pkey.pem image=centos-6 service\_account\_email= zone=us-central1-b name=localhost  
failed: [localhost] =\> {“changed”: false, “failed”: true}  
msg: Unexpected response: {}

FATAL: all hosts have already failed – aborting

PLAY RECAP \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*  
to retry, use: --limit @/home/dean/test.retry

localhost : ok=0 changed=0 unreachable=0 failed=1

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