Drop the `.env`, it's cleaner (ADK should pick up project and location from GCP metadata server)
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## Problem
When deploying ADK to Google Cloud, I must pass a `.env` file with these:
```
GOOGLE_GENAI_USE_VERTEXAI=TRUE
GOOGLE_CLOUD_PROJECT=my-project
GOOGLE_CLOUD_LOCATION=us-central1
```
## Proposal
This should not be needed when deploying to GCP:
- `GOOGLE_GENAI_USE_VERTEXAI` should be assumed to be `TRUE` unless an API key is provided.
- `GOOGLE_CLOUD_PROJECT` and `GOOGLE_CLOUD_LOCATION` should be retrieved from the instance metadata server.
A note on instance metadata server:
Every GCP runtime exposes the same instance metadata server which allows retrieving project and location. See [reference for Cloud Run](https://cloud.google.com/run/docs/container-contract#metadata-server). It's trivial for ADK to query it (see [example Go code](https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/cloud-run-hello/blob/master/hello.go#L119-L133))
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