You can use Cloud Storage to store and serve files, such as movies or images or other static content.
This document describes how to use the Google Cloud Client Library in your app to store data in and retrieve data from Cloud Storage.
Before you begin
Follow the instructions in "Hello, World!" for .NET on App Engine to set up your environment and project, and to understand how .NET apps are structured in App Engine. Write down and save your project ID, because you will need it to run the sample application described in this document.
Make sure you create a Cloud Storage bucket for your application by invoking the following command:
gsutil mb gs://[YOUR_BUCKET_NAME]
Make the bucket publicly readable so it can serve files:
gsutil defacl set public-read gs://[YOUR_BUCKET_NAME]
To run your application locally, set up a service account and download credentials:
Open the list of credentials in the Google Cloud Console.
Click Create credentials.
Select Service account key.
A Create service account key window opens.
Click the drop-down box below Service account, then click Compute Engine default service account.
Select JSON for the Key type.
Click Create.
A New private key window is displayed and the private key for the is downloaded automatically.
Click Close.
Set the environment variable
GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS
to the path of the JSON key that was downloaded. For example, in PowerShell:# For this powershell session. PS > $env:GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS = "$env:USERPROFILE\Downloads\your-project-id-dea9fa230eae3.json" # For all processes created after this command. PS > [Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable("GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS", "$env:USERPROFILE\Downloads\your-project-id-dea9fa230eae3.json", "User")
Download the sample
Download the sample app and extract it.
If you're using the command line, navigate into the app directory, `dotnet-docs-samples\appengine\flexible`.
Edit project configuration and install dependencies
In appsettings.json
, set BucketName
; this value is the
name of the Cloud Storage bucket you created previously.
Application code
The sample application presents a web page prompting the user to supply a file to be stored in Cloud Storage. When the user selects a file and clicks submit, the upload handler loads the file content into a blob and writes it to Cloud Storage.
Notice that after the file is uploaded to Cloud Storage, the public URL to this file is returned, which you can use to serve the file directly from Cloud Storage. You should store this value in your app for future use.
For more information
For complete information on Cloud Storage, see the Cloud Storage documentation.