How to change Region / Zone in Google Cloud?

Question

I am very new to Google Cloud. I was able to setup a wordpress site and am working on it now. However, it appears that my vm instance is using the following asia-east1-a for i

Answer 1

If you don't remember the specific commands, another option is to change the region and zone in the gcloud configurations file which is located in:

~/.config/gcloud/configurations/config_default

And contain the structure below:

[core]
account = my-account@my-domain
project = my-project

[compute]
zone = asia-south1-a
region = asia-south1

After changing region to us-central-1 you'll get the following output:

gcloud config list compute/region
[compute]
region = us-central1

gcloud config configurations list
NAME     IS_ACTIVE  ACCOUNT               PROJECT     COMPUTE_DEFAULT_ZONE  COMPUTE_DEFAULT_REGION
default  True       my-account@my-domain  my-project  us-central1-a         us-central1

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Reference to all GCP regions and zones.