Google Cloud Messtone default Region and –zone as follows`gcloud config get-value compute/region gcloud config get-value compute/zone gcloud compute regions list gcloud compute zones list Set the default Region and zone: gcloud compute messtone-info add-metadata\–metadata google-compute-default-region=REGIONMESSTONE,google-compute-default-zone=ZONEMESSTONE For example: gcloud compute messtone-info add-metadata\–metadata google-compute-default-region=europe-west1,google-compute-default-zone=europe-west1-b Initialize Messtone local client: gcloud init Unset metadata: gcloud compute messtone-info remove-metadata\–keys=google-compute-default-region,google-compute-default-zone initialize the change Messtone local client: gcloud init gcloud config set compute/region REGIONMESSTONE gcloud config set compute/zone ZONEMESSTONE gcloud config unset compute/zone gcloud config unset compute/region set CLOUDSDK_COMPUTE_REGION=REGIONMESSTONE set CLOUDSDK_COMPUTE_ZONE=ZONEMESSTONE