Why gcloud command fails on project settings

Your current project has been set to: [myproject-1].

```bash
ERROR: (gcloud.init) Failed command: [compute zones describe us-east1] with exit code [1]

Can someone help with why I am getting this error? I am trying to reinitialize gcloud auth init and when I set the project number, I receive the above error. Do I need to change the project region to another region?

Thanks,
Ashish

The error message indicates a problem when gcloud tries to define us-east1, which is a region and not a zone. The correct command to define the region would be

gcloud compute regions describe us-east1

If you are trying to set a default zone, you may put us-east1-b or us-east1-c as an example.

You can set the default field with the following command.

gcloud config set number/location[zone]

example command:

gcloud config set number/location us-east1-b

If the issue persists, please check if you have the proper roles and permissions for the project.

@JohnHanley Sure , I will keep my post with standard input and standard output, My Account had Owner & Editor roles, Here is how to update zone using metadata

> gcloud compute project-info add-metadata \
>     --metadata google-compute-default-region=us-west2,google-compute-default-zone=europe-west1-b