Building Google Cloud Platform Solutions

Uploading files to GCS

With our bucket in place, we can begin uploading files. We've done this in previous chapters using the Google Cloud Console. In order to upload files using gsutil, simply use the gsutil cp command, specifying a local file to be uploaded and our new bucket as the destination:

echo -e Hello, Google Cloud Storage > hello.txtgsutil cp hello.txt $BUCKET_NAME

As we did with our bucket, we can view details about the uploaded hello.txt using gsutil ls. Compare the output of the following command with the bucket details; the ACL and storage class will match, as the object inherits the bucket defaults:

gsutil ls -L $BUCKET_NAME/hello.txt