Enable Workload Manager

This document describes how to enable the Workload Manager API.

You can use the Google Cloud console or gcloud CLI to enable a service API. Make sure that you've the serviceusage.services.enable permission and billing is enabled for your Google Cloud project.

console

  1. In the Google Cloud console, on the project selector page, select the project in which you want to enable Workload Manager.

  2. Enable the Workload Manager API.

Enable the API

gcloud

Use the gcloud services enable command to enable the API.

  gcloud services enable workloadmanager.googleapis.com \
  --project=PROJECT_ID

Replace PROJECT_ID with the project ID of the consumer project in which you create and run Workload Manager evaluations or the project in which you deploy workloads using Workload Manager.

What's next

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Last updated 2026-02-19 UTC.