Google Cloud Storage

In order to use Google Cloud Storage reference package first.

You definitely want to use FluentStorage for working with Google Storage, as it solves quite a few issues which are hard to manage with the raw SDK:

• Listing of files and folders
• Recursive and non-recursive listing
• Upload and download operations are continuing to be optimised

You can configure Service Account IAM permissions for accessing GCS buckets, but then simply omit the cred in the connection string, and it will fallback to Workload Identity setup.

You can thn use makes it impossible to use Application Default Credentials (ADC), which is the recommended authentication approach for workloads running on Google Cloud and even for local development via gcloud auth application-default login.

If you have credentials stored in an environment variable. (As described here)

IBlobStorage storage = StorageFactory.Blobs.GoogleCloudStorageFromEnvironmentVariable(bucketName);

If you have credentials stored in an external JSON file.

IBlobStorage storage = StorageFactory.Blobs.GoogleCloudStorageFromJsonFile(bucketName, filePath);

If you need the credentials passed as a JSON string.

IBlobStorage storage = StorageFactory.Blobs.GoogleCloudStorageFromJson(
   bucketName, credentialsJsonString, isBase64EncodedString = false);

The last parameter says whether the string is base64 encoded or not, which is handy if credentials are stored in some sort of config file.

First, don't forget to initialise the module:

StorageFactory.Modules.UseGoogleCloudStorage();

Then, use the string:

IBlobStorage storage = StorageFactory.Blobs.FromConnectionString("google.storage://bucket=...;cred=...");

Where cred is a BASE64 encoded credential string.