in integration_test/gce-testing-internal/gce/gce_testing.go [1590:1606]
func shouldRetryCreateVM(err error, options VMOptions) bool {
// VM creation can hit quota, especially when re-running presubmits,
// or when multple people are running tests.
return strings.Contains(err.Error(), "Quota") ||
// Rarely, instance creation fails due to internal errors in the compute API.
strings.Contains(err.Error(), "Internal error") ||
// Instance creation can also fail due to service unavailability.
strings.Contains(err.Error(), "currently unavailable") ||
// This error is a consequence of running gcloud concurrently, which is actually
// unsupported. In the absence of a better fix, just retry such errors.
strings.Contains(err.Error(), "database is locked") ||
// windows-*-core instances sometimes fail to be ssh-able: b/305721001
(IsWindowsCore(options.ImageSpec) && strings.Contains(err.Error(), windowsStartupFailedMessage)) ||
// SLES instances sometimes fail to be ssh-able: b/186426190
(IsSUSEImageSpec(options.ImageSpec) && strings.Contains(err.Error(), startupFailedMessage)) ||
strings.Contains(err.Error(), prepareSLESMessage)
}