Before you begin

This page describes the steps you need to take to enable AutoML Tables for your project.

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Before you can use AutoML Tables, you must enable it for your project.

Set up your project

1. Sign in to your Google Cloud account. If you're new to Google Cloud, create an account to evaluate how our products perform in real-world scenarios. New customers also get $300 in free credits to run, test, and deploy workloads.
2. Install the Google Cloud CLI.

3. To initialize the gcloud CLI, run the following command:

   gcloud init

4. Create or select a Google Cloud project.

   Note: If you don't plan to keep the resources that you create in this procedure, create a project instead of selecting an existing project. After you finish these steps, you can delete the project, removing all resources associated with the project.

   • Create a Cloud project:

     gcloud projects create PROJECT_ID

   • Select the Cloud project that you created:

     gcloud config set project PROJECT_ID

5. Make sure that billing is enabled for your Cloud project. Learn how to check if billing is enabled on a project.

6. Enable the AutoML, BigQuery, and Cloud Storage APIs:

   gcloud services enable storage-component.googleapis.com automl.googleapis.com storage-api.googleapis.com bigquery

7. Install the Google Cloud CLI.

8. To initialize the gcloud CLI, run the following command:

   gcloud init

9. Create or select a Google Cloud project.

   Note: If you don't plan to keep the resources that you create in this procedure, create a project instead of selecting an existing project. After you finish these steps, you can delete the project, removing all resources associated with the project.

   • Create a Cloud project:

     gcloud projects create PROJECT_ID

   • Select the Cloud project that you created:

     gcloud config set project PROJECT_ID

10. Make sure that billing is enabled for your Cloud project. Learn how to check if billing is enabled on a project.

11. Enable the AutoML, BigQuery, and Cloud Storage APIs:

    gcloud services enable storage-component.googleapis.com automl.googleapis.com storage-api.googleapis.com bigquery

12. Set the PROJECT_ID environment variable to your Project ID.

    export PROJECT_ID=PROJECT_ID

    The AutoML API calls and resource names include your Project ID in them. The PROJECT_ID environment variable provides a convenient way to specify the ID.

Understand current known issues

Before starting to work with AutoML Tables, you should understand the current known issues and how to avoid or recover from them.