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<@U0288KYUB7C> just continuing off the last thread - I am, too, having issues with first activating/enabling services using the python automation SDK

I haven’t used automation SDK yet but (assuming it’s similar to “standard pulumi”), make sure that you *explicitly* add `depends_on` attribute to dependent resources (this dependency cannot be discovered implicitly by pulumi).

That’s the first thing I can advice without knowing any more details about your case.

I am able to successfully enable required APIs and create a VPC in a freshly created GCP project so it’s doable :slightly_smiling_face:. Unless, you’ve got some corner-case situation as Alex above.

Provide some more info what you’re trying to do and I’ll try to get back to it later.

<@U0288KYUB7C> what did you make it "depends_on"?

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<@U0288KYUB7C> on an initial run of an inline pulumi program, I get this error when trying to enable/activate services

can you paste the snippets how you:
• create the given Secret in secretmanager 
• activate the secretmanager API?

```	# activate Google API
	secret_manager_api = gcp.projects.Service(
	  "secret-manager-api",
	  service="<http://secretmanager.googleapis.com|secretmanager.googleapis.com>",
	)

	...

	# create Secret
	secret = gcp.secretmanager.Secret(
	  ...
	  opts=pulumi.ResourceOptions(
=&gt;	    depends_on=[secret_manager_api]
	  ),
	)```

you should create something more or less like the above

<@U0288KYUB7C> hey thanks for the above, had to work on another project but back on this again