Create a Bucket in Google Cloud Platform

Overview

Once you have your project created in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) you can create a GCP Bucket. A bucket is used to store data. With GCP storage you can manage files and folders using the same tools and APIs you use to manage files in a standard container. GCP Buckets are logical containers for your data.

Required Roles

In order to get the required permissions for creating a Cloud Storage bucket, email research.computing@dartmouth.edu and request that they grant you the roles/storage.admin IAM role on the project.

Create a New Bucket

Go to the Google Cloud Console and log-in to your account.
Make sure that you are in the project that you want to create your storage bucket in.
Click + Create a Storage Bucket on the dashboard
On the Create a bucket page, enter your bucket information. To go to the next step, click Continue.
Name your bucket
For Choose where to store your data, select a Location type and Location where the bucket data will be permanently stored
Choose a storage class for your data, either select a default storage class for the bucket, or select Autoclass for automatic storage class management of your bucket's data.
For Choose how to control access to objects, select whether or not your bucket enforces public access prevention, and select an Access control model for your bucket's objects.
For Choose how to protect object data, configure Protection tools if desired, and select a Data encryption method.
Click Create.
A public access prompt will appear on your screen, select Confirm to continue
You have now successfully created your storage bucket for your GCP project.