Mount Google Cloud Storage Bucket to Instance

Question

How can I mount a Google Cloud Storage bucket as a disk or folder with a standard path such as ~/myBucket on a Google Compute instance?

Everything is in the same project with full access.

Forrer

Answer 1

With the new beta gcsfuse this is now possible.

gcsfuse myBucket ~/path/to/mount

https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/gcs-fuse

Forrer

Is there any way to do this in windows? – Hluchy

@Hluchy given your name your question confuses me. Kidding, you should be able to use mingw or something. Docker would be great. – Forrer

@Hluchy haha :D mac or nix? – Forrer

mac for dev, nix for server :) i'm having a time though learning the command prompt – Hluchy

@Hluchy Learning nix style terminal is one of the best things you can do. Now your on mac never look back – Forrer

Answer 2

install gcsfuse on your virtual instance.

then

$ gcsfuse {{bucket name}} ~{{mounting path}}

https://medium.com/google-cloud/scheduled-mirror-sync-sftp-to-gcs-b167d0eb487a

Slemmer

Answer 3

If you want to mount gcs on instance permanently then refer to this doc which says https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/gcsfuse/blob/master/docs/mounting.md

If you would prefer to mount the file system automatically, you may need to pass the x-systemd.requires=network-online.target or _netdev option to ensure that gcsfuse waits for the network system to be ready prior to mounting

my-bucket /mount/point gcsfuse rw,x-systemd.requires=network-online.target,user You can also mount the file system automatically as a non-root user by specifying the options uid and/or gid:

my-bucket /mount/point gcsfuse rw,_netdev,allow_other,uid=1001,gid=1001

Brunobruns