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This page describes how to get started with theGoogle Cloud CLIso you can use it to manage private connectivity configurations, connection profiles, and streams in Datastream.
The Google Cloud CLI
provides the Google Cloud CLI to interact with
Datastream and other Google Cloud services. The gcloud CLI
uses the API to access Datastream, so you must enable the API before you
can use the tool.
You can seegcloudexamples in the following pages of the Datastream documentation:
Finally, configure a project as your default project with
two commands. The first command below lists the
configuration for the gcloud CLI, including any default project
already set. The second command sets the default project.
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