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apis depends on the environment where your code is running for information about where adc looks for credentials and in what order see how application default credentials works if you are using api keys then you don t need to set up adc for more information see use api keys to access apis provide credentials to adc select the environment where your code is running local development environment resource with an attached service account containerized environment on premises or another cloud provider cloud based development environment the gcloud cli and adc you can provide credentials to adc by using the gcloud auth application default login command this makes credentials available to the cloud client libraries and google api client libraries the gcloud cli itself doesn t use adc to access google cloud resources to learn how to provide credentials to the gcloud cli see authentication for the gcloud cli what s next learn more about how adc finds credentials authenticate for using cloud 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