I had a problem where I couldn’t register to google cloud and use the google cloud storage service. Tried searching online and found this repository: https://github.com/fsouza/fake-gcs-server
It has great documentation and you can also run it if you have docker installed:
$ docker run -d --name fake-gcs-server -p 4443:4443 fsouza/fake-gcs-server I had a task to upload files to google cloud storage but I wasn’t given access to the bucket. We were using docker and I was able to easily add it to our docker-compose.yml file:
version: '2' services: mygooglecloudstorage: container_name: mygooglecloudstorage image: fsouza/fake-gcs-server ports: - "4443:4443" volumes: - ./gcs/data:/data # This just prepopulates data And since I wanted to use it locally first, I created a file called fake_gcs.py with the following content:
def get_fake_client(): import requests import urllib3 from google.api_core.client_options import ClientOptions from google.auth.credentials import AnonymousCredentials from google.cloud import storage my_http = requests.Session() my_http.verify = False # disable SSL validation urllib3.disable_warnings( urllib3.exceptions.InsecureRequestWarning ) # disable https warnings for https insecure certs client = storage.Client( credentials=AnonymousCredentials(), project="test", _http=my_http, client_options=ClientOptions(api_endpoint='https://127.0.0.1:4443'), ) return client I did this so that I could easily replace client = storage.Client() with client = get_fake_client() later when I push my code.
storage.Client() package uses the GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS environment variable so there wasn’t much of a problem switching between the original and the fake client.
Now, you can perform regular operations in your fake server like you normally would in the original server.
from fake_gcs import get_fake_client client = get_fake_client() bucket = client.bucket('sample-bucket') blob = bucket.get_blob('test_file.txt') 
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