Required. The project and location to create the zone in. Format: projects/{project}/locations/{location}
Query parameters
Parameters
zoneId
string
Optional. ID used to uniquely identify the Zone within its parent scope. This field should contain at most 63 characters and must start with lowercase characters. Only lowercase characters, numbers and - are accepted. The - character cannot be the first or the last one. A system generated ID will be used if the field is not set.
The zone.name field in the request will be ignored.
requestId
string
Optional. An optional unique identifier for this request. See AIP-155.
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