connecting to Google Cloud Storage using gsutil from on premises server through border firewall

Question

I am trying to connect from on premises linux server to Google Cloud Platform Storage (bucket) using gsutil. We have a border firewall which need to opened to connect to Cloud Storage. Firewall team is asking for destination details with port.

eg: through gs utility if I want to download the or upload the file I used the command gsutil cp test.txt gs://testbucket

Thanks, Sahayam.J

Answer 1

Under the hood gsutil makes HTTPS requests to Cloud Storage API. So whitelisting storage.googleapis.com should suffice.