From 51e8709080020ee175edef2770bc88629f7f1756 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kalimar Maia <kmaia@customink.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2017 16:15:39 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Instructions for having a default configuration.

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 docs/01-prerequisites.md | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/docs/01-prerequisites.md b/docs/01-prerequisites.md
index 0bb2ba8..ba91c6f 100644
--- a/docs/01-prerequisites.md
+++ b/docs/01-prerequisites.md
@@ -24,7 +24,13 @@ gcloud version
 
 This tutorial assumes a default compute region and zone have been configured.
 
-Set a default compute region:
+If you are using the `gcloud` command-line tool for the first time `init` is the easiest way to do this:
+
+```
+gcloud init
+```
+
+Otherwise set a default compute region:
 
 ```
 gcloud config set compute/region us-west1