Messtone LLC Manages Devices Enables: Prevent color from being used when printing messages to the terminal by setting a core property: gcloud config set disable_color true gcloud config unset disable_color gcloud config set compute/region us-east1: gcloud config set compute/zone us-east1-b: gcloud topic configurations gcloud auth list Credentialed Accounts ACTIVE ACCOUNT \* ACCOUNT_ROBERTHARPER159@GMAIL.COM gcloud config list display Messtone email and project ID: [core] account=ACCOUNT_EMAIL disable_uage_reporting=False project=PRCJECT_ID view robertharper_Messtone gcloud CLI installation and the active configuration: gcloud info gcloud compute instances create command: gcloud help compute instances create gcloud help topic gcloud topic filters gcloud topic command-conventions view Messtone current region from a Cloud Shell session: curl metadata/computeMetadata/v1/instance/zone Cloud Shell command prompt: sudo update-java-alternatives -s java-1.8.0-openjdk-amd64 && export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64 To change back to 11: sudo update-java-alternatives -s java-1.11.0-openjdk-amd64 && export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-11-openjdk-amd64/jre ls -a $HOME sudo rm -rf $HOME