How do I fix the BOSH deploy error `Missing properties: resource_pool.availability_zone`?

Question

When I attempt a BOSH deploy (bosh -d nginx-ntp-xip-aws.yml -n deploy), I get the following error:

Deploying
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Director task 311
  Started preparing deployment > Preparing deployment. Done     (00:00:01)

  Started preparing package compilation > Finding packages to compile. Done (00:00:00)

  Started creating missing vms > nginx_ntp_xip/0 (23ec1c94-f415-4922-9914-42fe5b3f2b38). Failed: Missing properties: resource_pool.availability_zone (00:00:05)

Error 100: Missing properties: resource_pool.availability_zone

Answer 1

The problem was that the availability_zone property was missing from vm_types section of my BOSH director's cloud-config. Here's my azs section from my cloud-config:

azs:
- name: z1
  cloud_properties:
    availability_zone: us-east-1a

I updated the vm_types stanza in cloud-config.yml:

vm_types:
- name: t2.nano
  cloud_properties:
    instance_type: t2.nano
    availability_zone: us-east-1a
    ephemeral_disk:
      size: 4_000
      type: gp2

I then updated my BOSH director's cloud-config:

bosh update cloud-config cloud-config.yml

My subsequent deploy succeeded:

bosh -d nginx-ntp-xip-aws.yml -n deploy