# Setup GCS as file repository

Instructions how to setup a Google Cloud Storage bucket as file repository

# Pre-requirements

You need to have an Google Cloud Platform account. If not, you can register here cloud.google.com (opens new window) As a new customer Google will provide you with 300 USD for the first 12 months and a lot of other benefits forever free, e.g. 5 GB of Google Cloud Storage. More details can be found here: cloud.google.com/free/ (opens new window)

# Setup Guide

This guide will walk you through the creation of a bucket, the configuration of the bucket and the creation of a service account, before it helps you to configure it in psono.

# Create bucket

Login to cloud.google.com
Create a project at the top
Go to Storage -> Browser

Step 3 Go to storage

Click "Create bucket"

Step 4 Create bucket

Click "Setup bucket"

Specify a name, a region and click "Create".

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Remember the name that you specified as you will need it later.

Step 5 Setup bucket

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Remember the bucket name. You will need it later.

# Configure CORS

Click at the top to open a "Cloud Shell"

Step 6 Open Cloud Shell

Copy & paste the following two commands

cat <<EOT >> gcs_cors.json
[
    {
      "origin": ["*"],
      "responseHeader": ["content-type", "cache-control", "if-modified-since", "pragma"],
      "method": ["*"],
      "maxAgeSeconds": 5
    }
]
EOT

gsutil cors set gcs_cors.json gs://psono-file-upload

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Replace 'psono-file-upload' with your bucket name.

Step 6 Open Cloud Shell