ERROR gcloud services enable FAILED PRECONDITION Billing must be enabled for activation of service compute googleapis com compute googleapis com compute googleapis com

Question

Hi Guys,

I have created one project in GCP Cloud. I want to enable the compute service in this project. But I am getting this below error.

$ gcloud services enable compute.googleapis.com --project nadeem-gcp-1234567
ERROR: (gcloud.services.enable) FAILED_PRECONDITION: Billing must be enabled for activation of service '[compute.googleapis.com, compute.googleapis.com, compute.googleapis.com]' in project '135390206270' to proceed.
- '@type': type.googleapis.com/google.rpc.PreconditionFailure
  violations:
  - description: "billing-enabled: Project's billing account is not found. https://console.developers.google.com/project/135390206270/settings"
    subject: '135390206270'
    type: serviceusage/billing-enabled

Answer 1

Hi@akhtar,

You need to add the billing account to your project. Otherwise, the GCP cloud will not allow you to enable any services to that project. So go to your billing dashboard and enable the billing account to your project.