Packer custom image is missing storage-location option.

[ek-nag]

I am building a custom image for my HPC cluster deployment. A resource creation outside certain zones is restricted in my project. Therefore, I need to be able to choose a location where to store the image.

In GCP GUI console, I can specify it like in the figure below.

But, if I create an image using modules/packer/custom-image module, it defaults to Multi-regional and there is no way to choose a specific region. Therefore, I run into the following error:

==> project-cluster-images.googlecompute.toolkit_image: Startup script, if any, has finished running.
==> project-cluster-images.googlecompute.toolkit_image: Deleting instance...
    project-cluster-images.googlecompute.toolkit_image: Instance has been deleted!
==> project-cluster-images.googlecompute.toolkit_image: Creating image...
==> project-cluster-images.googlecompute.toolkit_image: Error waiting for image: googleapi: Error 412: Location us violates constraint constraints/gcp.resourceLocations on the resource projects/project/global/images/project-compute-image-20230405t110838z., conditionNotMet
==> project-cluster-images.googlecompute.toolkit_image: Deleting disk...
    project-cluster-images.googlecompute.toolkit_image: Disk has been deleted!
==> project-cluster-images.googlecompute.toolkit_image: Provisioning step had errors: Running the cleanup provisioner, if present...
Build 'project-cluster-images.googlecompute.toolkit_image' errored after 10 minutes 54 seconds: Error waiting for image: googleapi: Error 412: Location us violates constraint constraints/gcp.resourceLocations on the resource projects/project/global/images/project-compute-image-20230405t110838z., conditionNotMet

Snippet from my blueprint:

- group: packer-compute
  modules:
  - id: custom-compute-image
    source: modules/packer/custom-image
    kind: packer
    settings:
      source_image_project_id: [schedmd-slurm-public]
      source_image_family: schedmd-v5-slurm-22-05-8-hpc-centos-7
      disk_size: 50
      image_family: $(vars.compute_image)
      state_timeout: 15m
      zone: $(vars.zone)
      subnetwork_name: $(vars.subnetwork_name)

CLI gcloud example:

gcloud beta compute machine-images create image --project=project --source-instance=vm --source-instance-zone=northamerica-northeast1-c --storage-location=northamerica-northeast1

Would it be possible to add an equivalent of --storage-location to modules/packer/custom-image module?

[mr0re1]

Thank you for reaching out. We are tracking this as a feature request.

[mr0re1]

We target to fix it (into develop) by EOW.

[mr0re1]

This option has been added in #1123