Creating buckets and uploading objects in GCP - Try It Yourself

Creating buckets and uploading objects

📖 Scenario: You are working on a cloud project where you need to store files safely. Google Cloud Storage lets you create buckets to hold your files (called objects). You will create a bucket and upload a file to it.

🎯 Goal: Build a Google Cloud Storage bucket and upload a text file into it using Python code.

📋 What You'll Learn

Create a bucket named exactly my-test-bucket-12345

Create a text file named hello.txt with content Hello, Cloud!

Upload the hello.txt file to the bucket

Use the Google Cloud Storage Python client library

💡 Why This Matters

🌍 Real World

Cloud storage buckets are used to store and organize files in the cloud for websites, apps, and backups.

💼 Career

Cloud engineers and developers often create and manage storage buckets and upload files programmatically for scalable cloud applications.

1

Create a bucket named my-test-bucket-12345

Write Python code to create a Google Cloud Storage bucket named my-test-bucket-12345 using the storage.Client() and client.create_bucket() methods.

GCP

# Your code here to create the bucket named 'my-test-bucket-12345'

Need a hint?

Use storage.Client() to create a client, then call create_bucket() with the bucket name.

2

Create a text file named hello.txt with content Hello, Cloud!

Write Python code to create a file named hello.txt and write the text Hello, Cloud! into it.

GCP

from google.cloud import storage

client = storage.Client()
bucket_name = 'my-test-bucket-12345'
bucket = client.create_bucket(bucket_name)

# Create 'hello.txt' file with content 'Hello, Cloud!'
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use Python's open() function with mode 'w' to write text to a file.

3

Upload the hello.txt file to the bucket

Write Python code to upload the local file hello.txt to the bucket my-test-bucket-12345 using the bucket.blob() and blob.upload_from_filename() methods.

GCP

from google.cloud import storage

client = storage.Client()
bucket_name = 'my-test-bucket-12345'
bucket = client.create_bucket(bucket_name)

with open('hello.txt', 'w') as file:
    file.write('Hello, Cloud!')

# Upload 'hello.txt' to the bucket
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Create a blob object with bucket.blob('hello.txt') and upload the file with upload_from_filename().

4

Set the bucket's default storage class to STANDARD

Write Python code to set the bucket's default storage class to STANDARD using the bucket.default_storage_class attribute and update the bucket with bucket.update().

GCP

from google.cloud import storage

client = storage.Client()
bucket_name = 'my-test-bucket-12345'
bucket = client.create_bucket(bucket_name)

with open('hello.txt', 'w') as file:
    file.write('Hello, Cloud!')

blob = bucket.blob('hello.txt')
blob.upload_from_filename('hello.txt')

# Set bucket storage class to STANDARD
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Change the default_storage_class attribute and call patch() to apply changes.