Prerequisites

Google Cloud Platform SDK

Follow the Google Cloud SDK documentation to install and configure the gcloud command line utility.

Verify the Google Cloud SDK version is 218.0.0 or higher:

gcloud version

Output

Google Cloud SDK 241.0.0
bq 2.0.43
core 2019.04.02
gsutil 4.38

This tutorial assumes a default compute region and zone have been configured.

If you are using the gcloud command-line tool for the first time init is the easiest way to do this:

gcloud init

Otherwise set a default compute region. For example:

gcloud config set compute/region us-west1

Set a default compute zone. For example:

gcloud config set compute/zone us-west1-b

Use the gcloud compute zones list command to view additional regions and zones.