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Working with Google Cloud Storage from the Command Line

Difficulty: Intermediate

Duration: Up to 1 hour

Students: 1,725

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Description

The gsutil component of the Google Cloud Software Developer Kit (SDK) provides a command line interface (CLI) to working with Google Cloud Storage. In contrast to using the Cloud Console to work with Cloud Storage, the CLI is ideal for automating workflows. As you will see in this lab, gsutil is capable of doing everything that you can do in the Console and much more.

In this lab, you will use an instance that comes with gsutil pre-installed and ready to use. You will first learn how to create buckets and different methods for transferring files to Google Cloud Storage using gsutil. Lastly, you will explore Cloud Storage object versioning and see how to configure Object Lifecycle Management to control costs when versioning is enabled on a bucket.

Lab Objectives

Upon completion of this lab you will be able to:

Use and explain what Google Cloud Shell is
Use gsutil to perform a variety of Cloud Storage operations including creating buckets, transferring files, and performing diagnostic tests
Change the storage class of individual objects in a Cloud Storage bucket with gsutil
Enable object versioning on buckets with gsutil
Configure Object Lifecycle Management to control additional costs associated with object versioning