diff --git a/docs/03-compute-resources.md b/docs/03-compute-resources.md
index 7039e31..148e7a4 100644
--- a/docs/03-compute-resources.md
+++ b/docs/03-compute-resources.md
@@ -248,11 +248,11 @@ done
 for i in 0 1 2; do
   az network nic create \
     --resource-group kubernetes-the-hard-way \
-    --name worker-${i}-nic
+    --name worker-${i}-nic \
     --vnet-name kubernetes-the-hard-way-vnet \
     --subnet kubernetes-the-hard-way-subnet \
     --network-security-group kubernetes-the-hard-way-nsg \
-    --public-ip worker-${i}-ip
+    --public-ip worker-${i}-ip \
     --private-ip-address 10.240.0.2${i} \
     --ip-forwarding true
 done
@@ -261,14 +261,15 @@ done
 for i in 0 1 2; do
   az vm create \
     --name worker-${i} \
-    --resource-group kubernetes-the-hard-way
+    --resource-group kubernetes-the-hard-way \
     --no-wait \
-    --nics worker-${i}-nic
-    --image Canonical:UbuntuServer:18.04-LTS:latest
-    --admin-username azureuser
-    --generate-ssh-keys
-    --size Standard_B2s
-    --data-disk-sizes-gb 200
+    --nics worker-${i}-nic \
+    --image Canonical:UbuntuServer:18.04-LTS:latest \
+    --admin-username azureuser \
+    --generate-ssh-keys \
+    --size Standard_B2s \
+    --data-disk-sizes-gb 200 \
+    --tags pod-cidr=10.200.${i}.0/24
 done
 ```
 
diff --git a/docs/09-bootstrapping-kubernetes-workers.md b/docs/09-bootstrapping-kubernetes-workers.md
index bec4960..5f1eb3c 100644
--- a/docs/09-bootstrapping-kubernetes-workers.md
+++ b/docs/09-bootstrapping-kubernetes-workers.md
@@ -7,7 +7,8 @@ In this lab you will bootstrap three Kubernetes worker nodes. The following comp
 The commands in this lab must be run on each worker instance: `worker-0`, `worker-1`, and `worker-2`. Login to each worker instance using the `gcloud` command. Example:
 
 ```
-gcloud compute ssh worker-0
+EXTERNAL_IP=$(az vm show --show-details -g kubernetes-the-hard-way -n worker-0 --output tsv | cut -f19)
+ssh azureuser@${EXTERNAL_IP}
 ```
 
 ### Running commands in parallel with tmux
@@ -72,8 +73,7 @@ Install the worker binaries:
 Retrieve the Pod CIDR range for the current compute instance:
 
 ```
-POD_CIDR=$(curl -s -H "Metadata-Flavor: Google" \
-  http://metadata.google.internal/computeMetadata/v1/instance/attributes/pod-cidr)
+POD_CIDR=$(curl -H Metadata:true "http://169.254.169.254/metadata/instance/compute/tags?api-version=2018-10-01&format=text" -s | cut -f 2 -d ':' )
 ```
 
 Create the `bridge` network configuration file:
@@ -288,8 +288,11 @@ EOF
 List the registered Kubernetes nodes:
 
 ```
-gcloud compute ssh controller-0 \
-  --command "kubectl get nodes --kubeconfig admin.kubeconfig"
+EXTERNAL_IP=$(az vm show --show-details -g kubernetes-the-hard-way -n controller-0 --output tsv | cut -f19)
+ssh azureuser@${EXTERNAL_IP}
+```
+```
+kubectl get nodes --kubeconfig admin.kubeconfig
 ```
 
 > output