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 In this section you will provision an external load balancer to front the Kubernetes API Servers. The `kubernetes-the-hard-way` static IP address will be attached to the resulting load balancer.
 
-```
-KUBERNETES_PUBLIC_ADDRESS=$(gcloud compute addresses describe kubernetes-the-hard-way \
-  --region $(gcloud config get-value compute/region) \
-  --format 'value(address)')
-```
-
 ### Enable HTTP Health Checks
 
 The following commands must be run on each controller instance. Example: