Requester pays configuration in GCP - Mini Project: Build & Apply

Requester Pays Configuration in Google Cloud Storage

📖 Scenario: You are managing a Google Cloud Storage bucket that contains large datasets. To control costs, you want to enable the Requester Pays feature so that users who access the data pay for the access costs.

🎯 Goal: Configure a Google Cloud Storage bucket named data-bucket to enable the Requester Pays feature.

📋 What You'll Learn

Create a variable called bucket_name with the value data-bucket.

Create a variable called requester_pays_enabled and set it to True.

Write a function called enable_requester_pays that takes bucket_name and requester_pays_enabled as parameters and configures the bucket accordingly.

Call the enable_requester_pays function with the correct arguments to enable Requester Pays on the bucket.

💡 Why This Matters

🌍 Real World

Many organizations store large datasets in Google Cloud Storage and want to control who pays for data access. Enabling Requester Pays shifts the cost to the users who access the data, helping manage budgets.

💼 Career

Cloud engineers and administrators often need to configure storage buckets with cost controls like Requester Pays. Knowing how to automate this with code is a valuable skill.

1

Create the bucket name variable

Create a variable called bucket_name and set it to the string "data-bucket".

GCP

# Create a variable called bucket_name with the value "data-bucket"
bucket_name = "data-bucket"

Need a hint?

Use a simple assignment to create the variable bucket_name.

2

Create the Requester Pays flag variable

Create a variable called requester_pays_enabled and set it to True.

GCP

bucket_name = "data-bucket"
# Create a variable called requester_pays_enabled and set it to True
requester_pays_enabled = True

Need a hint?

Use a boolean value True for the variable requester_pays_enabled.

3

Write the function to enable Requester Pays

Write a function called enable_requester_pays that takes parameters bucket_name and requester_pays_enabled. Inside the function, use the Google Cloud Storage client library to get the bucket and set its requester_pays property to requester_pays_enabled. Then call patch() on the bucket to apply the change.

GCP

bucket_name = "data-bucket"
requester_pays_enabled = True

# Define the function enable_requester_pays below
def enable_requester_pays(bucket_name, requester_pays_enabled):
    # Your code here

Need a hint?

Use storage.Client() to create a client, then get the bucket with client.bucket(bucket_name). Set bucket.requester_pays and call bucket.patch().

4

Call the function to enable Requester Pays

Call the function enable_requester_pays with the variables bucket_name and requester_pays_enabled to enable Requester Pays on the bucket.

GCP

from google.cloud import storage

bucket_name = "data-bucket"
requester_pays_enabled = True

def enable_requester_pays(bucket_name, requester_pays_enabled):
    client = storage.Client()
    bucket = client.bucket(bucket_name)
    bucket.requester_pays = requester_pays_enabled
    bucket.patch()

# Call the function enable_requester_pays with bucket_name and requester_pays_enabled
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Simply call enable_requester_pays(bucket_name, requester_pays_enabled) to apply the configuration.