ERROR: (gcloud.app.deploy) Error Response: [13] An internal error occurred.

New project and it’s not deploying.

Do you want to continue (Y/n)?  y

Beginning deployment of service [default]...
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╠═ Uploading 0 files to Google Cloud Storage                ═╣
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File upload done.
Updating service [default]...failed.
ERROR: (gcloud.app.deploy) Error Response: [13] An internal error occurred.

From searching I’ve tried gcloud config set app/use_deprecated_preparation True which does nothing

[rickbeacham]

It would be great if gcloud deploy could tell us what might be the reason for not being able to deploy.
Three main reasons: Account Permissions, gcloud components, or invalid file types(.DS_Store or Mac Icons).

[Mark-McCracken]

Hi, I’ve managed to resolve my issue thanks to your comment about Cloud Build API. I do have a billing account. I was using a service account, which previously had the following permissions:

App Engine Admin
App Engine Viewer
App Engine Code Viewer
App Engine Deployer
App Engine Service Admin
Storage Admin
Storage Object Creator
Storage Object Viewer

Using the cloud console in the IAM section I added some more permissions for container builder so that it now has the following:

App Engine Admin
App Engine Viewer
App Engine Code Viewer
App Engine Deployer
App Engine Service Admin
Cloud Build Service Account
Cloud Build Editor
Cloud Build Viewer
Storage Admin
Storage Object Creator
Storage Object Viewer

Ideally, I think instead of an internal error message, it’d be great if the gcloud output mentioned that it was a permissions error, as I managed to fix this in about 2 minutes once I started searching for Cloud Build API. I think this is more to do with the app engine deployment API response, rather than the gcloud command line tool, but something needs fixed somewhere for sure.

Thanks for your help!