Mount Google Cloud Storage in Linux

How to mount cloud storage (bucket)

If not in GCP, Setting Up Authentication for Server to Server Production Applications

Refer to https://cloud.google.com/docs/authentication/production#auth-cloud-app-engine-python
1. Generate service account credentials (a json file)
2. Set GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS environment variable
# export GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS="[PATH]"

Install FUSE

1. Configure the gcsfuse using yum repo:

# vi /etc/yum.repos.d/gcsfuse.repo

[gcsfuse]
name=gcsfuse (packages.cloud.google.com)
baseurl=https://packages.cloud.google.com/yum/repos/gcsfuse-el7-x86_64
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0
repo_gpgcheck=0

2. Install gcsfuse:

# yum install gcsfuse

3. To mount a bucket using gcsfuse over an existing directory /path/to/mount, invoke it like this:

# gcsfuse my-bucket /path/to/mount
or
# gcsfuse --implicit-dirs my-bucket /path/to/mount


Umount ----
# fusermount -u /path/to/mount