Firebase CLI deploy functions - Error: Failed to initialize a region

Question

I'm having trouble doing firebase deploy --only functions for an app on Blaze plan. I have the latest firebase-tools CLI (v 3.5.0).

I get the following error:

=== Deploying to 'myapp1234'...

i  deploying functions
i  functions: ensuring necessary APIs are enabled...
i  runtimeconfig: ensuring necessary APIs are enabled...
✔  runtimeconfig: all necessary APIs are enabled
✔  functions: all necessary APIs are enabled
i  functions: preparing functions directory for uploading...
i  functions: packaged functions (1.29 KB) for uploading
✔  functions: functions folder uploaded successfully
i  starting release process (may take several minutes)...
i  functions: updating function myFunc...
⚠  functions[myFunc]: Deploy Error: Failed to initialize a region


Functions deploy had errors. To continue deploying other features (such as database), run:
    firebase deploy --except functions

Error: Functions did not deploy properly.

I've retried this every half hour for the past 12 hours, thinking there's an outage. The firebase status page shows all green.

score 7 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 31 '17 at 15:07

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Ok, here's what I found, a little weird:

firebase list shows all the firebase projects you have access to, BUT they are not already available (i.e. added as alias to your current folder project).

Even if the firebase-tools CLI allows you to do firebase deploy --project myproject1, if you do not have myproject1 declared in .firebaserc => it will fail with the weird region error above.

To fix this, I found that there are 2 options:

firebase use --add (will trigger an interactive list)
firebase use myproject1

=> and then firebase deploy --project myproject1 will work (with or without the optional --only functions)

answered Mar 31 '17 at 15:07

Radu Cugut

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This doesn't fix it for me, is there anything else I could try? – gomezluisj Oct 24 '17 at 13:55
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@gomezluisj did you find a solution? I also tried the above and it sis not solve the issue. – jasan Nov 15 '17 at 16:58
@jasan yes, I wrote google and they solved it, took two weeks btw. – gomezluisj Nov 15 '17 at 23:30
@gomezluisj you wrote google? did they fix it specifically for you?! – Victor Ferreira Jan 12 '18 at 03:44
@VictorFerreira I used firebase support to contact them, and two weeks later they wrote back after they fixed the issue, it was a problem on their end, so i assume it was affecting several customers not just me. – gomezluisj Jan 12 '18 at 16:44
Thanx it Fix for Me – Praveen Vishnu Nov 01 '18 at 06:33
After an hour of head scratching this ends up being the solution, thanks! – Codelicious Mar 17 '21 at 10:51

Firebase CLI deploy functions - Error: Failed to initialize a region

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