Enable or disable metadata storage

Enable the Container Analysis API

The Artifact Analysis API provides metadata storage for software artifacts on both Container Registry and Artifact Registry.

Caution: Container Registry is deprecated and scheduled for shutdown. Organizations that haven't used Container Registry prior to January 8, 2024 have new gcr.io repositories hosted on Artifact Registry by default. Effective May 15, 2024, Google Cloud projects without previous usage of Container Registry will only support hosting and managing images for the gcr.io domain in Artifact Registry.

Container Registry is scheduled for shutdown on March 18, 2025. For details on the deprecation, see Container Registry deprecation.

Enable the Container Analysis API if you are using Artifact Analysis for managing metadata. You can enable the API for an existing project, or create a new project and then enable the API.

Enable the Container Analysis API

Note: This API is automatically enabled by the Container Scanning API.

Users and service accounts that need to view occurrences must have the Container Analysis Occurrences Viewer. See Configuring access control for information about granting permissions.

Disable the Container Analysis API

When you disable the Container Analysis API, the service is turned off for both Container Registry and Artifact Registry.

To disable the Container Analysis API follow the instructions to disable services.

What's next

• Store and retrieve metadata for your software artifacts.
• Understand metadata concepts.