I am posting about docker a lot recently because these blog post been in my Drafts for long time waiting someone to finish them 😅 and Finally I had chance to do that.

I posted recently about storing container data in AWS s3 , but this time the same topic but for Google Cloud and how to configure that.

Configuration

• Export some Linux variables to save time.

export projnum=$(curl http://metadata.google.internal/computeMetadata/v1/project/numeric-project-id -sH "Metadata-Flavor: Google")

 export BUCKET="Osama-${projnum}"

• Verify that the variable was set successfully

echo $projnum
echo $BUCKET

• Prepare the cloud storage, using gsutil, create a new bucket

gsutil mb -l us-central1 -c standard gs://$BUCKET

• Install gcsfuse

sudo yum install -y gcsfuse

• Update the fuse.conf file to allow the user to mount the bucket properly

sudo sed -ri 's/# user_allow_other/user_allow_other/' /etc/fuse.conf

• Configure the directories needed to mount the bucket

 sudo mkdir /mnt/Osama /tmp/gcs

• Change ownership of the directories to the Current user if you choose to skip this step then you will not have access

sudo chown Osama: /mnt/Osama/ /tmp/gcs

• Mount the bucket

gcsfuse -o allow_other --temp-dir=/tmp/gcs $BUCKET /mnt/Osama/

• Copy the website files into the bucket by copy Command
• List the contents of the bucket

gsutil ls gs://$BUCKET

Use Bucket inside the container

• Mount the directory into the Docker container

docker run -d --name web1 --mount type=bind,source=/mnt/Osama,target=/usr/local/apache2/htdocs,readonly -p 80:80 httpd:2.4

Enjoy

Simple and Fun 😉

Osama