Create a Filestore instance by using the Google Cloud console

Create a Filestore instance by using the Google Cloud console

This quickstart shows you how to perform basic operations in Filestore using this Google Cloud console. In the quickstart, you will:

• Create a Filestore instance.
• Mount the file share from that instance on a client VM instance.
• Create a file on the mounted file share.
• Delete the Filestore instance.

Before you begin

1. Sign in to your Google Cloud account. If you're new to Google Cloud, create an account to evaluate how our products perform in real-world scenarios. New customers also get $300 in free credits to run, test, and deploy workloads.

2. In the Google Cloud console, on the project selector page, select or create a Google Cloud project.

   Note: If you don't plan to keep the resources that you create in this procedure, create a project instead of selecting an existing project. After you finish these steps, you can delete the project, removing all resources associated with the project.

   Go to project selector

3. Make sure that billing is enabled for your Google Cloud project.

4. In the Google Cloud console, on the project selector page, select or create a Google Cloud project.

   Note: If you don't plan to keep the resources that you create in this procedure, create a project instead of selecting an existing project. After you finish these steps, you can delete the project, removing all resources associated with the project.

   Go to project selector

5. Make sure that billing is enabled for your Google Cloud project.

Important: If you choose to use an existing project with this quickstart, it must have a non-legacy default VPC network with unmodified firewall rules. Production Filestore instances can have other network configurations, see Networking for more information.

When you finish the tasks that are described in this document, you can avoid continued billing by deleting the resources that you created. For more information, see Clean up.

Create a Compute Engine VM instance to be the client

1. In the Google Cloud console, go to the VM Instances page.

   Go to the Compute Engine instances page

2. Click Create Instance and configure the instance as follows.

   • Set Name to nfs-client.
   • Set Zone to us-central1-c.
   • Keep the default boot disk.
   • In the Firewall section, select the Allow HTTP traffic checkbox.
   • Keep the network as default.

3. Click Create to create the instance.

Create a Filestore instance

1. In the Google Cloud console, go to the Filestore Instances page.

   Go to the Filestore instances page

2. Click Create Instance and configure the instance as follows:

   • Set Instance ID to nfs-server.
   • Set Instance type to Basic.
   • Set Storage type to HDD.
   • Set Allocate capacity to 1TB.
   • Set Region to us-central1 and Zone to us-central1-c.
   • Set VPC network to default.
   • Set File share name to vol1.
   • Set Allocated IP range to Use an automatically allocated IP range.
   • Set Access controls to Grant access to all clients.

3. Click Create.

Mount the Filestore file share on the client

1. In the Google Cloud console, go to the VM Instances page.

   Go to the VM instances page

2. In the list of VM instances, click the SSH button for nfs-client to open a terminal window connected to that instance.

3. Install NFS by running the following commands:

   sudo apt-get -y update &&
   sudo apt-get -y install nfs-common
   

4. Make a mount directory for the Filestore file share by running the following command:

   sudo mkdir -p /mnt/test
   

5. Mount the file share by running the mount command and specifying the Filestore instance IP address and file share name:

   sudo mount 10.0.0.2:/vol1 /mnt/test
   

6. Make the file share accessible by changing the permissions:

   sudo chmod go+rw /mnt/test
   

   Important: We recommend setting more specific permissions in a production environment. For more information, see Configuring access on a file share.

Create a file on the file share

1. In the terminal window that is connected to the nfs-client instance, create a file named testfile by running the following command:

   echo 'This is a test' > /mnt/test/testfile
   

2. Confirm that the file was created by running the following command:

   ls /mnt/test
   

   and verifying that testfile is listed.

Clean up

To avoid incurring charges to your Google Cloud account for the resources used on this page, follow these steps.

Delete the Google Cloud project

Caution: Deleting a project has the following effects:

• Everything in the project is deleted. If you used an existing project for the tasks in this document, when you delete it, you also delete any other work you've done in the project.
• Custom project IDs are lost. When you created this project, you might have created a custom project ID that you want to use in the future. To preserve the URLs that use the project ID, such as an appspot.com URL, delete selected resources inside the project instead of deleting the whole project.

If you plan to explore multiple architectures, tutorials, or quickstarts, reusing projects can help you avoid exceeding project quota limits.

1. In the Google Cloud console, go to the Manage resources page.

   Go to Manage resources

2. In the project list, select the project that you want to delete, and then click Delete.
3. In the dialog, type the project ID, and then click Shut down to delete the project.

Delete the Filestore instance

1. In the Google Cloud console, go to the Filestore Instances page.

   Go to the Filestore instances page

2. Click the nfs-server instance ID to open the instance details page.

3. Click Delete .

4. When prompted, type the instance ID.

5. Click Delete.

Delete the Compute Engine instance

1. In the Google Cloud console, go to the Filestore Instances page.

   Go to the VM instances page

2. Select the checkbox next to the nfs-client instance name.

3. Click Delete .

4. When prompted, click Delete again.

What's next

• Read the Filestore Overview to learn more about the basics of Filestore.
• Set up a Filestore instance on your own by following the instructions at Creating Instances.
• Read the Access Control page to learn how to control access to Filestore operations and the resources on an instance.
• See how to copy data to or from a Filestore instance.
• See how to transfer large datasets from Cloud Storage to Filestore.