How to mount Google Bucket as local disk on Linux instance with full access rights [closed]

Answer 1

The answer keytrap gave is a correct one. But since 2017, gcsfuse as well as GCP have evolved and there are some more (maybe easier) options to let gscfuse connect with a Google account:

1. If you are running on a Google Compute Engine instance with scope storage-full configured, then Cloud Storage FUSE can use the Compute Engine built-in service account.
2. If you installed the Google Cloud SDK and ran gcloud auth application-default login, then Cloud Storage FUSE can use these credentials.
3. If you set the environment variable GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS to the path of a service account's JSON key file, then Cloud Storage FUSE will use this credential.

Source: Cloud Storage FUSE

Answer 2

I saw your question because I was having exactly the same problem and I also did the same steps as you. The solution to give user root full control of the mounted cloud folder :

You have to go to your Google Cloude place, search for "Service account" and clic on it.

Then you have to export the key file of your service account (.json) (I have created a new service account with the Google Cloud Shell consol using this command : gcloud auth application-default login And then followed the steps when I was prompted by the shell.)

Clic on Create Key and choose JSON Upload the .JSON keyfile to your linux server. Then on your Linux server, run this command : gcsfuse -o allow_other --gid 0 --uid 0 --file-mode 777 --dir-mode 777 --key-file /path_to_your_keyFile_that_you_just_uploaded.json nameOfYourBucket /path/to/mount

To find your root user GID & UID, login in root to your server and in terminal type : id -u root for UID & id -g root for GID

Hope I helped, because I've been struggling for long and no resource on internet really helped. Cheers.