30-setup-bucket.md

Create a Cloud Storage Bucket

In this section we will be creating a place to store our media assets.

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We need to create a new bucket to store our media assets (django admin assets, design images, etc).

Bucket names are globally unique across all of Google Cloud, so consider the scope of the bucket when you create it.

We suggest that you name it something unique to the project, but still noting it's purpose. Here's what we suggest:

export GS_BUCKET_NAME=${PROJECT_ID}-media

Now, create our bucket using the Google Storage utility gsutil (which was installed for you when you installed gcloud):

gsutil mb -l ${REGION} gs://${GS_BUCKET_NAME}

We'll also need to give our service account permission to operate on this bucket (which it needs to do Django admin action based storage object alteration:

gsutil iam ch \
  serviceAccount:${CLOUDRUN_SA}:roles/storage.objectAdmin \
  gs://${GS_BUCKET_NAME} 

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We now have somewhere to store our media! 🖼

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Next step: Create some secrets