1[TOC] 2 3# Introduction 4 5The RuntimeConfig service provides Google Cloud Platform users the ability to 6dynamically configure your service. 7 8The RuntimConfig service creates and manages RuntimeConfig resources 9within a Google Cloud Project and various variables within said resource. 10 11## Details 12 13Each cloud project can create multiple **Config** objects. A **Config** object 14by itself does not contain any configuration information, but rather is a 15logical grouping of variables. Variable names are hierarchical and follow file 16system style, where only leaf nodes can contain values. 17 18For example, you can have a configuration called *Flags*. Within that 19configuration object, you can create the following variables. 20 21* `/ports/service_port` 22* `/ports/monitoring_port` 23* `/ports/admin_port` 24 25This creates three variables: `/ports/serve_port`, `/ports/monitoring_port`, 26`/ports/admin_port`. Note that `/ports` cannot have a value but it can be 27listed. 28 29### Setup 30 31In order to make requests to RuntimeConfig service, you need to enable the API 32for your project. 33 34To achieve that, go to the 35[Google Cloud Console](https://console.cloud.google.com/apis/api/runtimeconfig.googleapis.com/overview) 36and enable *Google Cloud RuntimeConfig API* for your project. 37 38The documentation for this service is located 39[here](https://cloud.google.com/deployment-manager/runtime-configurator/reference/rest/). 40