Fast way of deleting non-empty Google bucket?

Question

Is this my only option or is there a faster way?

# Delete contents in bucket (takes a long time on large bucket)
gsutil -m rm -r gs://my-bucket/*

# Remove bucke         


        

Answer 1

Use this to set an appropriate lifecycle rule. e.g. wait for a day.

https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/gsutil/commands/lifecycle

Example (Read carefully before copy paste)

gsutil lifecycle set [LIFECYCLE_CONFIG_FILE] gs://[BUCKET_NAME]

Example (Read carefully before copy paste)

{
  "rule":
  [
    {
      "action": {"type": "Delete"},
      "condition": {"age": 1}
    }
  ]
}

Then delete the bucket.

This will delete the data asynchronously, so you don't have to keep some background job running on your end.