How to mount a bucket from Google Cloud in Ubuntu?

Question

I'm trying to mount a bucket into Ubuntu using Gcloud to authenticate me and GCSFuse to mount the bucket.

When i use the command

gcsfuse my-bucket /path/to/mount

It returns that it couldn't find the default credentials. So i changed the command to

gcsfuse --key-file filekey.json my-bucket /path/to/mount

and it says: open filekey.json no such file or directory.

After that i tried typing next to the command --foreground and this is what's next:

File system has been succesfully mounted.

But the terminal doesn't continue ... ?

Someone can help me ?

Are you running on GCE? If so, you need to include the storage-full scope when creating the instance. If not, default credentials won't work. — jacobsa
As for --key-file not working—is filekey.json actually there in the working directory? Odd that it works with --foreground, but it's expected that in foreground mode it doesn't return. If you're sure the key is there, please file an issue on GitHub. — jacobsa
Try passing to --key-file the full path to filekey.json. — Dan Cornilescu

tyolab tyolab · Accepted Answer · 2018-04-04T00:05:43

To avoid all the fuss with the key json file(s), you can just authorize the SDK to create a default credential for you by running:

gcloud auth application-default login