Attempting to associate a certificate map with a load balancer throws error

Question

I'm trying to associate a new certificate map with a new load balancer configuration in my project. Unfortunately, when I go to connect the certificate map with the target https proxy, I end up with this error:

Error creating TargetHttpsProxy: googleapi: Error 400: Invalid value for field 'resource.certificateMap': '//certificatemanager.googleapis.com/projects/MYPROJECT/locations/northamerica-northeast1/certificateMaps/MYCERTIFICATEMAP'. Resource '//certificatemanager.googleapis.com/projects/MYPROJECT/locations/northamerica-northeast1/certificateMaps/MYCERTIFICATEMAP' must be in same scope as resource referencing it., invalid

My understanding is that there are two possible values for scope: DEFAULT and EDGE_CACHE. I've stuck with DEFAULT as I don't suspect I need EDGE_CACHE?

Here's the description for the scope field:

The scope of the certificate. DEFAULT: Certificates with default scope are served from core Google data centers. If unsure, choose this option. EDGE_CACHE: Certificates with scope EDGE_CACHE are special-purposed certificates, served from non-core Google data centers. Currently allowed only for managed certificates.

Personally I don't find this informative enough as it doesn't help me make my decision.

Answer 1

It wasn't obvious, and the fact that the error was calling out "scope" ended up being misleading... When specifying the region in that long URL string, I was presuming my default region for my application northamerica-northeast1, when really I should have been putting global.

So instead of:

//certificatemanager.googleapis.com/projects/MYPROJECT/locations/northamerica-northeast1/certificateMaps/MYCERTIFICATEMAP

I instead needed:

//certificatemanager.googleapis.com/projects/MYPROJECT/locations/global/certificateMaps/MYCERTIFICATEMAP

And now I'm load balancing away!