diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index 9a786e6dfb750d0af377ffe02537b4ceb83c0513..882de1e0556e5a044d515aaa3ab37a12c0528247 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -25,11 +25,11 @@ variables:
       - $API_DOMAIN_PATH
     name: "${CI_JOB_NAME}_${CI_JOB_ID}"
     #when: on_failure
-    expire_in: 1 month
+    expire_in: 1 week
   script:
     - export GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS=${GOOGLE_CLOUD_SERVICE_ACCOUNT}
     - terraform/environments/scripts/create-or-update-env.sh $ENVIRONMENT_ID $CI_COMMIT_SHA
-    - echo "$(terraform/environments/scripts/get-api-domain.sh)" > $API_DOMAIN_PATH
+    - echo "$(terraform/environments/scripts/get-output.sh api_domain)" > $API_DOMAIN_PATH
   resource_group: $ENVIRONMENT_ID # never execute terraform in parallel on the same environment
   interruptible: false
 
diff --git a/terraform/common/init.tf b/terraform/common/init.tf
index 93d6ec7e6346c7294812a0610d3d6ddca1526d07..817551e91120a67bf80ac464c6ee4a7b9eab4e6a 100644
--- a/terraform/common/init.tf
+++ b/terraform/common/init.tf
@@ -15,9 +15,9 @@ data "terraform_remote_state" "holi_infra_state" {
 
 # provider google including beta features
 provider "google" {
-  region = "europe-north1"
+  region = local.default_region
 }
 
 provider "google-beta" {
-  region = "europe-north1"
+  region = local.default_region
 }
diff --git a/terraform/common/vars.tf b/terraform/common/vars.tf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1c12ce4019d313359dfe5c31ca6df20b8d0cd440
--- /dev/null
+++ b/terraform/common/vars.tf
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+locals {
+  default_region = data.terraform_remote_state.holi_infra_state.outputs.default_region
+}
diff --git a/terraform/environments/deployment.tf b/terraform/environments/deployment.tf
index ae1416c7541bc50ec07c460a962a4339f7e65b16..db00dbe8ee765b3adb1e335227a2cc77ad84095f 100644
--- a/terraform/environments/deployment.tf
+++ b/terraform/environments/deployment.tf
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ variable "image_tag" {
 resource "google_cloud_run_service" "geo_api" {
   project  = data.terraform_remote_state.holi_infra_state.outputs.shared_project_id
   name     = random_id.main.hex
-  location = "europe-north1" # finland, low CO2 emissions
+  location = local.default_region # finland, low CO2 emissions
   # https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-provider-google/issues/5898
   autogenerate_revision_name = true
 
diff --git a/terraform/environments/init.tf b/terraform/environments/init.tf
index 3e00eead9686a00ede5736c0501fba5e403f295b..bfce8573c6da5c0d9d87f40eec646caef05ce8ef 100644
--- a/terraform/environments/init.tf
+++ b/terraform/environments/init.tf
@@ -23,9 +23,9 @@ data "terraform_remote_state" "holi_geo_api_common_state" {
 
 # provider google including beta features
 provider "google" {
-  region = "europe-north1"
+  region = local.default_region
 }
 
 provider "google-beta" {
-  region = "europe-north1"
+  region = local.default_region
 }
diff --git a/terraform/environments/scripts/get-api-domain.sh b/terraform/environments/scripts/get-api-domain.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index 63451fcec2e41baf24a5d48a5abfbdf076891c69..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/terraform/environments/scripts/get-api-domain.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env sh
-
-# exit when any command fails
-set -ex
-
-cd terraform/environments > /dev/null
-
-terraform output -raw api_domain
diff --git a/terraform/environments/scripts/get-output.sh b/terraform/environments/scripts/get-output.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2e1d9b65003d2dd4e752e54bd1cf2234384af85a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/terraform/environments/scripts/get-output.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env sh
+
+# exit when any command fails
+set -ex
+
+: "${1?"Usage: $0 OUTPUT_NAME"}"
+
+cd "$(dirname "$0")"/.. > /dev/null
+
+terraform output -raw "$1"
diff --git a/terraform/environments/vars.tf b/terraform/environments/vars.tf
index 750dfce7bebd96d2a0397a0e01fc6e74b780a4a8..f7e2e18edab88a24999ccf39486b28863c108ea9 100644
--- a/terraform/environments/vars.tf
+++ b/terraform/environments/vars.tf
@@ -5,4 +5,6 @@ locals {
 
   # the dns name can be at most 64 chars in total
   dns_name = "${trimsuffix(substr(local.environment, 0, 34), ".-")}.${data.terraform_remote_state.holi_geo_api_common_state.outputs.dns_geo_api_domain}"
+
+  default_region = data.terraform_remote_state.holi_infra_state.outputs.default_region
 }