From 61b45e57eeeda353131f81f379db6668ce9ab736 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jared Markell <982083+jaredm4@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2022 13:50:40 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Update 01-prerequisites.md

On newly created GCP projects, default region and zone are not set, leading to `REGION=$(curl -s -H "Metadata-Flavor: Google" \
  http://metadata.google.internal/computeMetadata/v1/project/attributes/google-compute-default-region)` failing with a 404 in section [08-bootstrapping-kubernetes-controllers](https://github.com/kelseyhightower/kubernetes-the-hard-way/blob/master/docs/08-bootstrapping-kubernetes-controllers.md#configure-the-kubernetes-api-server)
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 docs/01-prerequisites.md | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/01-prerequisites.md b/docs/01-prerequisites.md
index d2474ce..543be03 100644
--- a/docs/01-prerequisites.md
+++ b/docs/01-prerequisites.md
@@ -48,6 +48,13 @@ Set a default compute zone:
 gcloud config set compute/zone us-west1-c
 ```
 
+Set the default compute region and compute zone on the project itself:
+
+```
+gcloud compute project-info add-metadata \
+    --metadata google-compute-default-region=us-west1,google-compute-default-zone=us-west1-c
+```
+
 > Use the `gcloud compute zones list` command to view additional regions and zones.
 
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