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Google wasted my time by having a distinction between PROJECT NAME & PROJECT ID.

The SDK will ask you to set gcloud config set project NAME

NAME is the PROJECT ID

When things go wrong:

ERROR: (gcloud.compute.instances.create) Some requests did not succeed:
 - Invalid value for project: localkuvat

When things go right:

$ gcloud config set project numeric-rig-758
$ gcloud compute instances create outyet \
	--image container-vm-v20140925 \
	--image-project google-containers \
	--metadata-from-file google-container-manifest=containers.yaml \
	--tags http-server \
	--zone us-central1-a \
	--machine-type f1-micro
Created [https://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/numeric-rig-758/zones/us-central1-a/instances/lk].
NAME ZONE          MACHINE_TYPE INTERNAL_IP   EXTERNAL_IP    STATUS
lk   us-central1-a f1-micro     10.240.89.159 146.148.60.109 RUNNING

Hat tip: https://blog.golang.org/docker