Creating Cloud Tasks queues

This page describes how to create Cloud Tasks queues using the gcloud command of the Google Cloud SDK.

Before you begin

To access the Cloud Tasks service using Cloud Tasks API , you must have a project that contains an App Engine app located in a specific region. This location will serve as the LOCATION_ID parameter for your Cloud Tasks requests, so make a note of it. Note that two locations, called europe-west and us-central in App Engine commands, are called, respectively, europe-west1 and us-central1 in Cloud Tasks commands. The app serves as the location for whatever queues the developer creates. The underlying Cloud Tasks service itself runs in that same location.

Creating a Cloud Tasks queue

Use the Google Cloud SDK to create your queue:

gcloud tasks queues create [QUEUE_ID]

where:

  • QUEUE_ID is the identifier you assign to your queue, for example, my-queue.

It can take a few minutes for a newly created queue to be available. Then use describe to verify that your queue was created successfully:

gcloud tasks queues describe [QUEUE_ID]

The output should be something like:

name: projects/[PROJECT_ID]/locations/[LOCATION_ID]/queues/[QUEUE_ID]
rateLimits:
  maxBurstSize: 100
  maxConcurrentDispatches: 1000
  maxDispatchesPerSecond: 500.0
retryConfig:
  maxAttempts: 100
  maxBackoff: 3600s
  maxDoublings: 16
  minBackoff: 0.100s
state: RUNNING

If you do not see the above output, you can try the following:

  • Wait at least one minute for the queue to initialize.

  • Make sure a queue with the same ID does not already exist. You can view all queues in your project by calling:

    gcloud tasks queues list

  • Check if you've reached your queue limit:

    Go to the Cloud Tasks API page

    and select Quotas.

    To increase your resource limits, select Edit Quotas from the Quotas page of the Cloud Console

  • Check each part of the command and re-run it.

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