distribution/docs/storage-drivers/gcs.md
Misty Stanley-Jones f1fb06838a Various copyedits to reduce future tense, wordiness, and use of 'please' (#5788)
* Reword lots of instances of 'will'

* Reword lots of instances of won't

* Reword lots of instances of we'll

* Eradicate you'll

* Eradicate 'be able to' type of phrases

* Eradicate 'unable to' type of phrases

* Eradicate 'has / have to' type of phrases

* Eradicate 'note that' type of phrases

* Eradicate 'in order to' type of phrases

* Redirect to official Chef and Puppet docs

* Eradicate gratuitous 'please'

* Reduce use of e.g.

* Reduce use of i.e.

* Reduce use of N.B.

* Get rid of 'sexagesimal' and correct some errors
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Explains how to use the Google Cloud Storage drivers registry, service, driver, images, storage, gcs, google, cloud Google Cloud Storage driver

An implementation of the storagedriver.StorageDriver interface which uses Google Cloud for object storage.

Parameters

Parameter Required Description
bucket yes Storage bucket name.
keyfile no A private service account key file in JSON format. Instead of a key file Google Application Default Credentials can be used.
rootdirectory no This is a prefix that is applied to all Google Cloud Storage keys to allow you to segment data in your bucket if necessary.
chunksize no (default 5242880) This is the chunk size used for uploading large blobs, must be a multiple of 256*1024.

bucket: The name of your Google Cloud Storage bucket where you wish to store objects (needs to already be created prior to driver initialization).

keyfile: (optional) A private key file in JSON format, used for Service Account Authentication.

Note Instead of a key file you can use Google Application Default Credentials.

rootdirectory: (optional) The root directory tree in which all registry files are stored. Defaults to the empty string (bucket root).