AnkushKhanna commented on a change in pull request #15991: URL: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/15991#discussion_r638583296
########## File path: docs/content/docs/deployment/filesystems/gcs.md ########## @@ -0,0 +1,76 @@ +--- +title: Google cloud storage +weight: 3 +type: docs +aliases: + - /deployment/filesystems/gcs.html +--- +<!-- +Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one +or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file +distributed with this work for additional information +regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file +to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the +"License"); you may not use this file except in compliance +with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at + + http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 + +Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, +software distributed under the License is distributed on an +"AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY +KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the +specific language governing permissions and limitations +under the License. +--> + +# Google Cloud Storage + +[Google Cloud storage](https://cloud.google.com/storage) (GCS) provides cloud storage for variety of usecases. You can use it for **reading** and **writing data**. + + + +You can use GCS objects like regular files by specifying paths in the following format: + +```plain +gs://<your-bucket>/<endpoint> +``` + +The endpoint can either be a single file or a directory, for example: + +```java +// Read from GSC bucket +env.readTextFile("gs://<bucket>/<endpoint>"); + +// Write to GCS bucket +stream.writeAsText("gs://<bucket>/<endpoint>"); + +``` + +### Libraries + +You would require to include the following libraries to `/lib` for connecting flink with gcs. Review comment: Hi, I tried running the same application via copying jar's to `plugins/gcs`. It does not seem to work with that. -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org
