Configure Django and Google Cloud Storage?

Question

I am not using Appengine.

I have a plain vanilla Django application running on a VM. I want to use Google Cloud Storage for serving my staticfiles, and also for uploading/serving my media files.

I have a bucket.

How do I link my Django application to my bucket? I've tried django-storages. That may work, but what do I have to do to prepare my bucket to be used by my django application? And what baseline configuration do I need in my Django settings?

Current settings:

# Google Cloud Storage
# http://django-storages.readthedocs.org/en/latest/backends/apache_libcloud.html
LIBCLOUD_PROVIDERS = {
    'google': {
        'type'  : 'libcloud.storage.types.Provider.GOOGLE_STORAGE',
        'user'  : <I have no idea>,
        'key'   : <ditto above>,
        'bucket': <my bucket name>,
    }
}

DEFAULT_LIBCLOUD_PROVIDER = 'google'
DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE = 'storages.backends.apache_libcloud.LibCloudStorage'
STATICFILES_STORAGE = 'storages.backends.apache_libcloud.LibCloudStorage'

Answer 1

Django-storages has a backend for Google Cloud Storage, but it is not documented, I realised looking in the repo. Got it working with this setup:

DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE = 'storages.backends.gs.GSBotoStorage'
GS_ACCESS_KEY_ID = 'YourID'
GS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY = 'YourKEY'
GS_BUCKET_NAME = 'YourBucket'
STATICFILES_STORAGE = 'storages.backends.gs.GSBotoStorage'

To get YourKEY and YourID you should create Interoperability keys, in the settings tab.

Hope it helps and you don't have to learn it the hard way :)

Ah in case you haven't yet, the dependencies are:

pip install django-storages
pip install boto