Mount Cloud Storage for App Eng

[Myron Schram]

I need to mount a "local" drive for my Go app to access while it is running in App Engine. Does anyone happen to know if there is instruction on how to do this?

Thanks,

Myron

[George (Cloud Platform Support)]

Hello Myron, 

It all depends on what is meant by "local" drive. Your app cannot write to the local file system. Does your app face difficulties when using Cloud Storage, as recommended? You may have a look at the "Using Cloud Storage with Go" documentation page, and "Setting Up Google Cloud Storage". 

[Myron Schram]

We are calling a third party API and it requires a us to reference a local file location to post the file we are sending it

Thanks,

Myron

On Feb 1, 2019, at 11:56 AM, 'George (Cloud Platform Support)' via Google App Engine <google-a...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Hello Myron, 

It all depends on what is meant by "local" drive. Your app cannot write to the local file system. Does your app face difficulties when using Cloud Storage, as recommended? You may have a look at the "Using Cloud Storage with Go" documentation page, and "Setting Up Google Cloud Storage". 

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[Olivier Yiptong]

Myron, are you using go111?

If so, /tmp/ is writeable.

Keep in mind that /tmp/ will write to what effectively is a RAM disk.

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[Julie (cloud platform support)]

This is the document[1] referring to /tmp file as a writable file which may be able to be the reference file. App Engine Flex should also work[2] however please reply if you are using Flex and using /tmp as the reference file does not work in this case. 

[1] https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/go111/runtime#filesystem_2

[2] https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/flexible/go/runtime