Prerequisites for this chapter

The activities in this section need to be completed before we can start to perform the primary activities in this chapter.

Enabling APIs

In addition to the methods we discussed in earlier chapters to enable Google Cloud APIs, such as the Google Cloud Shell or being prompted in the Google Cloud console, you can also proactively search for an API in order to enable it in the console. To do that, you would perform the following steps, in which [service/API name] is the name of the Service/API you wish to enable:

1. In the Google Cloud console, navigate to the Google Cloud services menu → APIs & Services → Library.
2. Search for [service name] in the search box.
3. Select the API from the list of results.
4. On the page that displays information about the API, click Enable.

Perform the preceding steps for each of the following service/API names:

• Compute Engine API
• Cloud Scheduler API
• Dataflow API
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