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This page describes how to enable and start using the Service Networking
API. For most operational use cases, Google recommends the gcloudcommand
line interface. If you need
to program against the Service Networking API, you can use one of
our provided client libraries.
Enabling the service
Enable Service Networking in the private services management
project. This project handles the private connections with consumer
VPC networks. For more information, see Enabling private
services access.
console
Select or create a private services management project.
Replace PROJECT_ID with the Google Cloud project ID of your
private services management project.
Service Networking enables you to offer your managed
services on internal IP addresses to service consumers.
Service consumers use private services
access to privately
connect to your service. To set up your service for private services access,
reach out to your Google representative for more information.
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