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This page describes the steps to enable and disable Artifact Registry.
If you use Container Registry, you can enable Artifact Registry in the same
project. Each service operates independently.
See Pricing for information about charges for Artifact Registry.
See the Artifact Analysis documentation for information about enabling
Artifact Analysis APIs and pricing for vulnerability scanning.
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:
Before you disable the Artifact Registry API, ensure that any artifacts
that you want to keep are available in another ___location. It is recommended that
you delete repositories before disabling the API.
When you disable the Artifact Registry API, the following conditions apply:
Repositories and artifacts in repositories become inaccessible.
Data might be deleted within 7 days after the API is disabled.
To disable the API from the Google Cloud console:
console
Go to the API Overview
page for Artifact Registry.
Select the project where the API is enabled.
Click Manage.
Click Disable API.
gcloud
Run the following command to disable the API for your current project:
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