Lab - Cloud Storage

In the last lesson, you learned how to create and upload files to the GCS bucket using UI.

In this lab, you will use Gcloud CLI to carry out the different operations using gsutil component of the SDK. You can use your cloud shell, laptop, or the terminal provided at the end of the lesson to complete this lab.

• Run gcloud init in case you are using your laptop or terminal provided at the end of the lesson. This will configure the gcloud SDK with your GCP account.

• Run gcloud config list and check whether your account and project are set correctly.

root@educative:/# gcloud config list
[core]
account = gcpheadstart@gmail.com #Your email
disable_usage_reporting = True
project = gcp-headstart-educative #your project

Your active configuration is: [default]

Creating a bucket

1. Type gsutil ls to list existing buckets. If you get a list of buckets then the configurations are right for the project you have chosen.

2. Type gsutil mb gs://<bucketname>. The bucket name needs to be a globally unique name.

3. Type gsutil ls to see your newly created bucket.

Now we will upload files to the bucket.

Uploading files

There 2 ways in which you can upload a file to the bucket from your system. Using copy or move command. Both are self-explanatory. To copy, use gsutil cp [source_location] [destination] and to move use gsutil mv [source] [destination] command. We will move the files for now.

• Type echo "demo file" > ...