Getting started with Google Cloud Storage

To create a Google Cloud Storage Metadata, launch the Metadata creation wizard, select the Google Cloud Storage Metadata in the list and follow the wizard.

The wizard will ask you to choose the credentials to use, with a list of all credentials defined in your workspace. If the list is empty, make sure that you have read carefully the prerequisites.

Credentials being configured, you can now start defining Buckets nodes in your Metadata.

This is just a Metadata definition, the Buckets does not necessarily need to exist physically on Google Cloud Storage, as the Component allows to create or delete them.

To add a new Bucket node, right click on the root node and choose New  Bucket

You can then define a logical name for this Bucket, and the real Bucket Name that will be used on Google Cloud Storage.

There is several additional storage information that can be defined in the standard and advanced tab, which allows to define more precisely the Bucket’s properties, such as its location, its storage class, its retention period, …​

Note that those additional information will only be used when trying to create the corresponding Bucket with the Process Tool allowing the create the Bucket, and that when they are left empty, the default value from Google API is used.

You can also define Bucket labels and Bucket Life Cycle rules which should be used to configure the Bucket at Bucket creation.

Finally, you can define 'Directories' which will be used to store and retrieve Blobs from Buckets.

This is optional and corresponds to the prefix that can be added on Blobs to organize them in virtual 'Directories'.

This will be used to filter the list of Blobs to retrieve and to create Blobs within a specific path.