Merge pull request #123 from kubefirst/fix_env_region

fix: remove required env value, and allow init command to collect it

README.md

@@ -18,7 +18,6 @@ The setup is extremely simple, create a `.env` file in the root folder, and add
 | Variable           | example          |
 |--------------------|------------------|
 | AWS_PROFILE        | default          |
-| AWS_REGION         | us-east-1        |
 | CLOUD_PROVIDER=aws | aws              |
 | HOSTED_ZONE_NAME   | example.com      |
 | ADMIN_EMAIL        | john@example.com |

cmd/init.go

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ package cmd
 
 import (
 	"log"
+	"os"
 	"strings"
 	"time"
 
@@ -80,6 +81,11 @@ to quickly create a Cobra application.`,
 		// name of the cloud region to provision resources when resources are region-specific
 		region, _ := cmd.Flags().GetString("region")
 		viper.Set("aws.region", region)
+		// propagate it to local environment
+		err = os.Setenv("AWS_REGION", region)
+		if err != nil {
+			log.Panicf("unable to set environment variable AWS_REGION, error is: %v", err)
+		}
 		log.Println("region:", region)
 
 		// cluster name

configs/envvars.go

@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@ func CheckEnvironment() error {
 
 	requiredEnvValues := map[string]string{
 		"AWS_PROFILE": os.Getenv("AWS_PROFILE"),
-		"AWS_REGION":  os.Getenv("AWS_REGION"),
 	}
 
 	for k, v := range requiredEnvValues {