Google Cloud Platform Cookbook

How to do it...

The steps involved are as follows:

1. Clone the GitHub repository and navigate to the storagedrive directory: https://github.com/legorie/gcpcookbook.git or https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Google-Cloud-Platform-Cookbook.git.
2. Create virtualenv and install the dependencies to run the sample:

$ virtualenv env$ source env/bin/activate$ pip install -r requirements.txt

3. The Python code will upload the file specified to Google Storage and make an entry into the Cloud Datastore. We have prepended a five-digit hash to the filename so that the files are not written in a contiguous manner. This will help Google Cloud Storage better manage the auto-balancing, upload connection speed, and distribution of files. The bucket name is hardcoded ...