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To deploy your app on App Engine, you must create a Google Cloud project,
which is a top level container that holds your App Engine
application resources as well as other Google Cloud resources.
In this task, you create a Google Cloud project and an App Engine
application to store settings, computing resources, credentials, and metadata
for your app.
If you already have a Google Cloud project with App Engine and the
Cloud Build API enabled, continue to
Writing Your Web Service.
Create a Google Cloud project
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.
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If you're new to Google Cloud, [create an account](https://console.cloud.google.com/freetrial) to evaluate how our products perform in real-world scenarios. New customers also get $300 in free credits to run, test, and deploy workloads.\n- In the Google Cloud console, on the project selector page,\n select or create a Google Cloud project.\n\n | **Note**: If you don't plan to keep the resources that you create in this procedure, create a project instead of selecting an existing project. After you finish these steps, you can delete the project, removing all resources associated with the project.\n\n [Go to project selector](https://console.cloud.google.com/projectselector2/home/dashboard)\n-\n [Verify that billing is enabled for your Google Cloud project](/billing/docs/how-to/verify-billing-enabled#confirm_billing_is_enabled_on_a_project).\n\n-\n\n\n Enable the Cloud Build API.\n\n\n [Enable the API](https://console.cloud.google.com/flows/enableapi?apiid=cloudbuild.googleapis.com)\n-\n [Install](/sdk/docs/install) the Google Cloud CLI.\n\n- If you're using an external identity provider (IdP), you must first\n [sign in to the gcloud CLI with your federated identity](/iam/docs/workforce-log-in-gcloud).\n\n-\n To [initialize](/sdk/docs/initializing) the gcloud CLI, run the following command:\n\n ```bash\n gcloud init\n ```\n\n- In the Google Cloud console, on the project selector page,\n select or create a Google Cloud project.\n\n | **Note**: If you don't plan to keep the resources that you create in this procedure, create a project instead of selecting an existing project. After you finish these steps, you can delete the project, removing all resources associated with the project.\n\n [Go to project selector](https://console.cloud.google.com/projectselector2/home/dashboard)\n-\n [Verify that billing is enabled for your Google Cloud project](/billing/docs/how-to/verify-billing-enabled#confirm_billing_is_enabled_on_a_project).\n\n-\n\n\n Enable the Cloud Build API.\n\n\n [Enable the API](https://console.cloud.google.com/flows/enableapi?apiid=cloudbuild.googleapis.com)\n-\n [Install](/sdk/docs/install) the Google Cloud CLI.\n\n- If you're using an external identity provider (IdP), you must first\n [sign in to the gcloud CLI with your federated identity](/iam/docs/workforce-log-in-gcloud).\n\n-\n To [initialize](/sdk/docs/initializing) the gcloud CLI, run the following command:\n\n ```bash\n gcloud init\n ```\n\n1. Create an App Engine application for your\n Google Cloud project in the Google Cloud console.\n\n [Open app creation](https://console.cloud.google.com/appengine/create?lang=java-gen2&st=true)\n2. Select a region where you want your app's computing resources located.\n\n \u003cbr /\u003e\n\n \u003cbr /\u003e\n\n | **Note:** After you create your App Engine app, you cannot change the region. To reduce latency, choose the region closest to your app's intended users. For more information on the available regions, see [App Engine Locations](/appengine/docs/standard/locations).\n3. Due to [changes in the default\n behavior for how Cloud Build uses service accounts](/build/docs/cloud-build-service-account-updates) in new projects, and [secure-by-default\n organization policy changes](/resource-manager/docs/secure-by-default-organizations), you might need to grant additional roles to your deploying service account. For more information on granting specific roles, see the [troubleshooting guide](/appengine/docs/standard/troubleshooter/deployment#default-sa-permissions).\n\n\u003cbr /\u003e\n\nNext steps\n----------\n\nNow that your Google Cloud project is set up, you're ready to\n[write a basic web service with Java](/appengine/docs/standard/java-gen2/building-app/writing-web-service)."]]
