Method: projects.locations.instances.create

Requests that a new DatabaseInstance be created. The state of a successfully created DatabaseInstance is ACTIVE.

Only available for projects on the Blaze plan. Projects can be upgraded using the Cloud Billing API https://cloud.google.com/billing/reference/rest/v1/projects/updateBillingInfo.

Note that it might take a few minutes for billing enablement state to propagate to Firebase systems.

HTTP request

POST https://firebasedatabase.googleapis.com/v1beta/{parent=projects/*/locations/*}/instances

The URL uses gRPC Transcoding syntax.

Path parameters

Parameters
parent

string

The parent project for which to create a database instance, in the form: projects/{project-number}/locations/{location-id}.

Authorization requires the following IAM permission on the specified resource parent:

  • firebasedatabase.instances.create

Query parameters

Parameters
databaseId

string

The globally unique identifier of the database instance.
validateOnly

boolean

When set to true, the request will be validated but not submitted.

Request body

The request body contains an instance of DatabaseInstance.

Response body

If successful, the response body contains a newly created instance of DatabaseInstance.

Authorization Scopes

Requires one of the following OAuth scopes:

  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform
  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/firebase

For more information, see the Authentication Overview.