Professional Cloud Architect – Google Cloud Certification Guide

gsutil

In this section, we will describe the usage of gsutil. The main purpose of this is to ensure that you understand the primary use case of gsutil and show examples of real-life scenarios. gsutil is a Python application that can be used to manage Cloud Storage resources and can be triggered from Cloud Shell. By using gsutil, we can do the following:

• Create and delete buckets
• Manage access to these buckets and their objects
• Copy and move storage data
• List the contents of a bucket
• Transfer data in and out of our Cloud Shell instance (note that this is not limited to Cloud Shell)

You need to understand that the gsutil syntax works in gsutil <action> gs://<bucket name>/<resource name> format. An example of <action> could be mb, which is ...