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This page describes the steps to enable and disable SaaS Runtime.
Enabling service
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.
In the Google Cloud console, on the project selector page,
select or create a Google Cloud project.
Install and initialize Google Cloud CLI if it is not
already installed. For an existing installation, update components of
the Google Cloud CLI with the command:
gcloud components update.
To check your version of the gcloud CLI, run the command:
gcloud version
Enable the API from the Google Cloud console or by using gcloud:
In the Google Cloud console, to enable the required APIs, on the Get started tab of the Overview page, click Enable SaaS Runtime APIs.
Using gcloud, to enable the required APIs, run the following command:
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