GCP Healthcheck not found External HTTP LoadBalancer yaml

Question

I'm a bit new at google cloud deployment but I'm currently trying to set up a external http loadbalancer with yaml in google cloud deployment manager. The loadbalancer uses a healthcheck but when I try to redirect to where my healthcheck is it gives an error that it can't find it.

I tried to create the healthcheck manually in the console but it still says it can't find it.

I've gone over the documentation here https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/reference/rest/v1/backendServices and here https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/reference/rest/v1/healthChecks and it looks like it should be working but it don't.

I have also searched on google and stack overflow for an answer but haven't found anything. I've also tried to use selflink to link to the healthcheck. But that won't work either. I feel like im missing something here.

- name: healthcheckpls
  type: compute.v1.httpHealthCheck
  properties:
    port: 80
    requestPath: /

- name: bes
  type: compute.v1.backendService
  properties:
    port: 80
    portName: http
    protocol: HTTP
    backends:
    - name: bes
      balancingMode: UTILIZATION
      capacityScaler: 1.0
      group: zones/us-central1-f/instanceGroups/instancegroup-1
    maxUtilization: 0.8
    connectionDraining:
      drainingTimeoutSec: 300
    healthChecks: 
    - global/httpHealthChecks/healthcheckpls
- name: apache-url-map
  type: compute.v1.urlMap
  properties:
    defaultService: $(ref.bes.selfLink)
- name: apache-http-proxy
  type: compute.v1.targetHttpProxy
  properties:
    urlMap: $(ref.apache-url-map.selfLink)
- name: apache-ipaddress
  type: compute.v1.globalAddress
- name: apache-http-forwardingrule
  type: compute.v1.globalForwardingRule
  properties:
    target: $(ref.apache-http-proxy.selfLink)
    IPAddress: $(ref.apache-ipaddress.address)
    IPProtocol: TCP
    portRange: 80-80

Here is the Error I get from the deployment manager.

ERROR: (gcloud.deployment-manager.deployments.create) Error in Operation [operation-1606653109305-5b53e13db7fbd-7084e34a-f0444d0f]: errors:
- code: RESOURCE_ERROR
  location: /deployments/lampdeployment/resources/bes
  message: "{\"ResourceType\":\"compute.v1.backendService\",\"ResourceErrorCode\"\
    :\"404\",\"ResourceErrorMessage\":{\"code\":404,\"errors\":[{\"domain\":\"global\"\
    ,\"message\":\"The resource 'projects/cloudautomation-296812/global/httpHealthChecks/healthcheckpls'\
    \ was not found\",\"reason\":\"notFound\"}],\"message\":\"The resource 'projects/cloudautomation-296812/global/httpHealthChecks/healthcheckpls'\
    \ was not found\",\"statusMessage\":\"Not Found\",\"requestPath\":\"https://compute.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/cloudautomation-296812/global/backendServices\"\
    ,\"httpMethod\":\"POST\"}}"

Am I missing something? Why isn't this working?

I'm very new at this so if there is something fundemental im missing I would also like to know :D

Thanks for the help guys! I really appreciate it.

Answer 1

After a lot of troubleshooting I got it. I had to use:

    healthChecks: 
    - $(ref.healthcheckpls.selfLink)