cloud-test: Treat Google Cloud Storage like a file system with our new PowerShell provider

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Treat Google Cloud Storage like a file system with our new PowerShell provider

Tuesday, October 25, 2016

Posted by Jim Przybylinski and Chris Smith, Software Engineers

Google Cloud Storageup to 99.95% availabilityfees as low as $0.007GB/monthgsutil really, really
Navigating Cloud Storage with Cloud Tools for PowerShellCloud Tools for PowerShellCloud SDK for Windowssystem registrySQL Server instancecd, dir, copy, del,catGoogleCloudcdgs:\dirgcloud init
PS C:\> Import-Module GoogleCloud
WARNING: The names of some imported commands from the module 'GoogleCloud' include unapproved verbs that might make
them less discoverable. To find the commands with unapproved verbs, run the Import-Module command again with the
Verbose parameter. For a list of approved verbs, type Get-Verb.
PS C:\> cd gs:\
PS gs:\> dir | Select Name

Name
----
blog-posts
chrsmith-demos.appspot.com
chrsmith-pictures
database-snapshots-prod
staging.chrsmith-demos.appspot.com
...cddirSet-Location and Get-ChildItem
Populating Google Cloud StoragemkdirSet-Contentgs:\gootoso-test-bucket\folder
PS gs:\> mkdir gootoso-test-bucket | Out-Null
PS gs:\> Set-Content gs:\gootoso-test-bucket\folder\file.txt `
   -Value "Hello, GCS!"
PS gs:\> Test-Path gs:\gootoso-test-bucket\folder\file.txt
True
PS gs:\> cd .\gootoso-test-bucket\folder
PS gs:\gootoso-test-bucket\folder> cat file.txt
Hello, GCS!Get-GcsBucketNew-GcsObjectCopy-GcsObjectcd
Mixing Cmdlets and the PowerShell Provider
PS gs:\gootoso-test-bucket\folder> $objs = dir
PS gs:\gootoso-test-bucket\folder> $objs[0].GetType().FullName
Google.Apis.Storage.v1.Data.Object
PS gs:\gootoso-test-bucket\folder> $objs | Read-GcsObject
Hello, GCS!

PS gs:\gootoso-test-bucket\folder> Write-GcsObject -Object $objs[0] -Contents "update"PS gs:\> Remove-GcsBucket -Name gootoso-test-bucketCloud Storage API
PS gs:\> cd gs:\blog-posts\images
PS gs:\blog-posts\images> $objects = dir -Recurse
PS gs:\blog-posts\images> $objects |
   Sort-Object Size -Descending |
   Select-Object -First 1 -Property Name,TimeCreated,SizePowerShell documentationGitHub