Google Cloud Storage(GCS) using CLI

Till now we did GCS lab using UI, Let's use CLI to create a bucket and Play with it accordingly

Shall we proceed!!!

Step 1 :- In the top right corner of the console, click on the CMD icon to open the Cloud Shell.

Step 2 :- Type out the command as follows.

gsutil --version

if you get popup like this click on Authorize

Step 3 :- Here's an example of how to create a bucket and give it a unique name for your bucket.

gsutil mb gs://[bucket-name]

mb - Make buckets

gs - Google storage

Your bucket will be created.

Step 4 :- If you want to list your bucket.

gsutil ls

Step 5 :- create a number of text files according to your wish.

touch command to create a text file.

touch 1.txt 2.txt

**ls **command to list files.

ls

Step 6 :- we will put text file into our bucket.

**cp **- we use **cp **to upload and download files.

gsutil cp 1.txt gs://[bucket-name]

Click on your bucket and check your files should be there.

Step 7 :- To list your files in your bucket.

gsutil ls gs://[bucket-name]

Step 8 :- If you want to download files from your bucket to your directory.

lets remove files from our directory.

**rm **- to remove files.

And **ls ** to list your files

gsutil cp gs://[bucket-name]/1.txt .

Now when you write this above command you will get below result.

When you do ls, you will get your files back.

Step 9 :- You can see all the ACL permissions on a given object.

**acl **- access control lists (it basically says who has the object or bucket access also the level of access like owner, admin, viewer role)

gsutil acl get gs://[bucket-name]/1.txt

Step 10 :- we are going to reader access to our object.

**ch ** - subcommands

-u - what kind of user role you want give.

gsutil acl ch -u Allusers:R  gs://[bucket-name]/1.txt

Your object will become publicly accessible after you refresh your browser.

That's it, for now, we will continue further in next blog.

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