Question

You just installed the Google Cloud CLI on a new laptop and authenticated with your corporate account. Every time you run 'gcloud compute instances create', the CLI prompts you to select a zone interactively, which slows down your scripting. You want the CLI to stop prompting and always target europe-west1-b by default, without having to pass a flag on each command. What should you do?

Accepted Answer

Run 'gcloud config set compute/zone europe-west1-b' to store the default zone in the active configuration.

Answer

Set an environment variable 'GCLOUD_ZONE=europe-west1-b' in your shell profile.

Answer

Add '--zone=europe-west1-b' to every command using a shell alias, since gcloud cannot store a default zone.

Answer

Run 'gcloud init' again and choose europe-west1-b, which is the only way to persist a zone.