diff --git a/docs/08-bootstrapping-kubernetes-controllers.md b/docs/08-bootstrapping-kubernetes-controllers.md
index ede6ce0..c23afb0 100644
--- a/docs/08-bootstrapping-kubernetes-controllers.md
+++ b/docs/08-bootstrapping-kubernetes-controllers.md
@@ -63,8 +63,7 @@ INTERNAL_IP=$(curl -s -H "Metadata-Flavor: Google" \
 ```
 
 ```
-REGION=$(curl -s -H "Metadata-Flavor: Google" \
-  http://metadata.google.internal/computeMetadata/v1/project/attributes/google-compute-default-region)
+REGION=$(curl -s -H "Metadata-Flavor: Google" http://metadata.google.internal/computeMetadata/v1/instance/zone | cut -d/ -f 4 | sed 's/.\{2\}$//')
 ```
 
 ```