Accessing GCP cloud storage bucket as local directory on your machine

This is a simplified guide on how to access the GCP buckets just like a local directory which make it easier when dealing with data inside. For that we would use gcsfuse which is a utility that allows you to mount Google Cloud Storage buckets as file systems on your local machine (Linux, Debian). Note: It’s not currently available out of the box for MacOS.

Visit the following in order to install the gcsfuse on your linux machine (Please note that its not yet available for MacOS)

To mount a cloud storage bucket using gcsfuse, use the following commands:

gcsfuse — implicit-dirs — key-file /home/user/test-key-file-2984a80c5a4a.json — file-mode 777 — dir-mode 777 gcp-bucket “$HOME/local-mounted-folder”

This command mounts the gcp-bucket bucket from Google Cloud Storage to the local directory $HOME/local-mounted-folder. Adjust the paths and bucket name as needed.

Note: The — key-file option specifies the path to a service account key file, which is used for authentication and authorisation to access the Google Cloud Storage bucket. Replace /home/user/test-key-file-2984a80c5a4a.json with the path to your own service account key file in case you intend to write this bucket.

gcsfuse — implicit-dirs — billing-project “my-gcp-project” public-gcp-bucket “$HOME/local-mounted-folder”

This command mounts the public-gcp-bucket bucket from Google Cloud Storage to the local directory $HOME/local-mounted-folder. Adjust the paths and bucket name as needed. Note that the billing-project flag specifies the billing project associated with the bucket.

To unmount a mounted bucket, use the following command:

fusermount -u “$HOME/local-mounted-folder”

This command unmounts the bucket previously mounted to the directory $HOME/local-mounted-folder. Adjust the path according to your specific mount location.

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