Kubernetes deploy failed with "Failed create pod sandbox" in GKE

The RAM resource is measured in bytes. You can express RAM as a plain integer or a fixed-point integer with one of these suffixes : E, P, T, G, M, K, Ei, Pi, Ti, Gi, Mi, Ki.

Refer Memory Meaning on Kubernetes Docs

CPU resources are defined in millicores. Fractional values are allowed and you can use the suffix m to mean mili when defining CPU limits. For example 100m cpu is 100 milicpu, and is the same as 0.1 cpu.

Example : If your container needs one full cores to run, you would put the value “1000m”. If your container only needs ¼ of a core, you would put a value of “250m”.

The issue was eventually in the deployment YAML.

If you encounter a similar issue, check your resources section and verify it has to correct syntax which can be found here: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/configuration/manage-compute-resources-container/

In my case, the issue was in the memory value:

Working example (Note the Mi):

resources:
    limits:
      cpu: 500m
      memory: 256Mi
    requests:
      cpu: 5m
      memory: 256Mi

The initial resources definition (BAD SYNTAX):

resources:
    limits:
      cpu: 500m
      memory: 256m
    requests:
      cpu: 5m
      memory: 256m

I hope that it'll help other community members in the future, since it took me a decent amount of time to find the root cause in my case...