Create storage buckets

This page guides you through how to create a storage bucket for your Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) air-gapped appliance projects. It covers prerequisites, creation and verification steps, and naming guidelines. This helps you establish compliant and well-configured object storage that meets the needs of your isolated deployments.

This page is for audiences such as IT admins within the infrastructure operator group or developers within the application operator group who are looking to provision and manage object storage buckets for projects within GDC air-gapped environments.

Before you begin

A project namespace manages bucket resources in the Management API server. You must have a project to work with buckets and objects.

You must also have the appropriate bucket permissions to perform the following operation. See Grant bucket access.

Storage bucket naming guidelines

Bucket names must adhere to the following naming conventions:

• Be unique within the project. A project appends a unique prefix to the bucket name, ensuring there aren't clashes within the organization. In the unlikely event of a prefix and bucket name clash across organizations, the bucket creation fails with a bucket name in use error.
• Have at least one and no more than 57 characters.
• Refrain from including any personally identifiable information (PII).
• Be DNS-compliant.
• Start with a letter and contain only letters, numbers, and hyphens.

Create a bucket

To create a bucket, apply a bucket specification to your project namespace:

    kubectl apply -f bucket.yaml

The following is an example of a bucket specification:

    apiVersion: object.gdc.goog/v1
    kind: Bucket
    metadata:
      name: BUCKET_NAME
      namespace: NAMESPACE_NAME
    spec:
      description: DESCRIPTION
      storageClass: Standard
      bucketPolicy :
        lockingPolicy :
          defaultObjectRetentionDays: RETENTION_DAY_COUNT

For more details, see the Bucket API reference.