Create a Colab Enterprise notebook by using the Google Cloud console

Learn how to create a Colab Enterprise notebook and run its code on a default runtime by using the Google Cloud console. This page also describes how to rename, import, and delete a notebook.

Before you begin

  1. 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.

  2. In the Google Cloud console, on the project selector page, select or create a Google Cloud project.

    Go to project selector

  3. Verify that billing is enabled for your Google Cloud project.

  4. Enable the Vertex AI, Dataform, and Compute Engine APIs.

    Enable the APIs

  5. In the Google Cloud console, on the project selector page, select or create a Google Cloud project.

    Go to project selector

  6. Verify that billing is enabled for your Google Cloud project.

  7. Enable the Vertex AI, Dataform, and Compute Engine APIs.

    Enable the APIs

    8.

Required roles

To get the permissions that you need to create a Colab Enterprise notebook and run the notebook's code on a runtime, ask your administrator to grant you the Colab Enterprise User (roles/aiplatform.colabEnterpriseUser) IAM role on the project. For more information about granting roles, see Manage access to projects, folders, and organizations.

You might also be able to get the required permissions through custom roles or other predefined roles.

Create a notebook

To create a Colab Enterprise notebook by using the Google Cloud console:

  1. In the Google Cloud console, go to the Colab Enterprise My notebooks page.

    Go to My notebooks

  2. In the Region menu, select the region where you want to create your notebook.

  3. Click  New notebook.

    Vertex AI creates and opens your notebook.

When you finish the tasks that are described in this document, you can avoid continued billing by deleting the resources that you created. For more information, see Clean up.

Run code in a default runtime

To run a Colab Enterprise notebook's code on the default runtime, do the following:

  1. In the Google Cloud console, go to the Colab Enterprise My notebooks page.

    Go to My notebooks

  2. In the Region menu, select the region that contains your notebook.

  3. Click the notebook that you want to open.

  4. Hold the pointer over the code cell that you want to run, and then click the  Run cell button.

  5. If this is your first time connecting to a runtime with end-user credentials enabled, a Sign in dialog appears.

    To grant Colab Enterprise access to your user credentials, complete the following steps:

    1. In the Sign in dialog, click your user account.

    2. Select See, edit, configure, and delete your Google Cloud data... to grant Colab Enterprise access to your user credentials.

      The checkbox is next to a statement that says, "See, edit, configure, and delete your Google Cloud data and see the email address for your Google Account."

    3. Click Continue.

After your runtime starts, Colab Enterprise connects to the runtime and runs the code in the cell.

Rename your notebook

To rename a Colab Enterprise notebook:

  1. In the Google Cloud console, go to the Colab Enterprise My notebooks page.

    Go to My notebooks

  2. In the Region menu, select the region that contains your notebook.

  3. Next to the notebook that you want to rename, click the Actions menu, and then select Rename.

  4. In the Rename notebook dialog, change the name of the notebook, and then click Rename.

Import a notebook

To import a notebook into Colab Enterprise:

  1. In the Google Cloud console, go to the Colab Enterprise My notebooks page.

    Go to My notebooks

  2. In the Region menu, select the region where you want to import your notebook.

  3. Click  Import.

  4. In the Import notebooks dialog, select an Import source.

  5. If you selected:

    • Your computer, navigate to and select a notebook file to import.
    • Cloud Storage, navigate to and select a notebook in Cloud Storage.
    • URL, enter the URL of the notebook file to import.

  6. To add another notebook, click  Add notebook.

  7. After you've added the notebooks that you want to import, click Import.

    Colab Enterprise imports your notebook files.

Clean up

To avoid incurring charges to your Google Cloud account for the resources used on this page, follow these steps.

To avoid incurring charges to your Google Cloud account for the resources used in this tutorial, either delete the project that contains the resources, or keep the project and delete the individual resources.

Delete the project

  1. In the Google Cloud console, go to the Manage resources page.

    Go to Manage resources

  2. In the project list, select the project that you want to delete, and then click Delete.
  3. In the dialog, type the project ID, and then click Shut down to delete the project.

Delete your notebook

To delete a Colab Enterprise notebook:

  1. In the Google Cloud console, go to the Colab Enterprise My notebooks page.

    Go to My notebooks

  2. In the Region menu, select the region that contains the notebook that you want to delete.

  3. Next to the notebook that you want to delete, click the Actions menu, and then select  Delete notebook.

  4. In the Delete notebook dialog, click Confirm.

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