Getting Started with the Service Networking API
This page describes how to enable and start using the Service Networking
API. For most operational use cases, Google recommends the gcloud command
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.
Enable the Service Networking API.
gcloud
Activate the Service Networking API:
gcloud services enable servicenetworking.googleapis.com \
--project=PROJECT_ID
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.