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Zone resource pool and Quotas exhausted

Hi all,

I've been trying to get a very basic project working on GCP in my spare time for a few days, to evaluate whether to move some bigger projects to the platform. 

However, I keep running into the same problems, and can't provision any resources on GKE, or build secondary boot disk images. The error I get when trying to create a new node pool is

"ZONE_RESOURCE_POOL_EXHAUSTED"

in the Instance Groups error logs, even after I've tried different zones all across europe at this point.

When trying to build secondary boot disks (for container image caching on the nodes in the node pool), I get 

"Code: QUOTA_EXCEEDED
Message: Quota 'N2_CPUS' exceeded.  Limit: 8.0 in region europe-west1."

I have no idea why building a simple disk image would attempt provisioning of 8 relatively large compute engines, nor why it complains about my quotas, since I set them to "autoscale".

Am I missing something here? Thanks in advance!

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