This post is in context of setting up a k8s cluster. K8s requires a set of machines to host the k8s control plane and the worker nodes where containers are ultimately run.

kwame@r2d2:~$ gcloud config set compute/region us-west1
Updated property [compute/region].
kwame@r2d2:~$ gcloud config set compute/zone us-west1-c
Updated property [compute/zone].
kwame@r2d2:~$