Deploy fails with v8.16+: Failed to get instance details for instance: <project-id>

[REQUIRED] Environment info

firebase-tools: 8.16.0, 8.16.1

Platform: Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS running in a Github Workflow

[REQUIRED] Test case

Since upgrading to firebase-tools 8.16+ our deployments are failing when running the following commands:

firebase projects:list
firebase use ${GCP_PROJECT}
firebase deploy --non-interactive

The first two commands (projects:list and use <project-id>) complete successfully, but the deploy --non-interactive command fails with the following error:

Error: Failed to get instance details for instance: <project-id>. See firebase-debug.log for more details.

The firebase-debug.log file referenced by the error message does not exist, so we have been unable to get additional information about the cause of the failure.

The only workaround we’ve found so far is to pin the version of firebase-tools to @8.15.1 rather than installing @8.

[REQUIRED] Steps to reproduce

Run firebase deploy --non-interactive

[REQUIRED] Expected behavior

firebase deploy --non-interactive deploys our project successfully

[REQUIRED] Actual behavior

=== Deploying to '<project-id>'...


i  deploying database, hosting
i  database: checking rules syntax...


Error: Failed to get instance details for instance: <project-id>. See firebase-debug.log for more details.
Error: Process completed with exit code 1.

[bkendall]

Alright, magic “do this thing” test. Can you try enabling the Realtime Database API for your project (be sure to select the right one in the top dropdown) and retrying? If that works, that’ll give us exactly the information we need.

[bkendall]

@plvbroker could you open a new issue with all the appropriate information? That’ll be the best way to figure it out.