fake-gcs-server
fake-gcs-server provides an emulator for Google Cloud Storage API. It can be
used as a library in Go projects and/or as a standalone binary/Docker image.
The library is available inside the package
github.com/buu700/fake-gcs-server-go116/fakestorage
and can be used from within test suites in Go package. The emulator is
available as a binary that can be built manually, downloaded from the releases
page or pulled from Docker
Hub (docker pull buu700/fake-gcs-server-go116
).
Using the emulator in Docker
You can stub/mock Google Cloud Storage as a standalone server (like the datastore/pubsub emulators)
which is ideal for integration tests and/or tests in other languages you may want to run the
fake-gcs-server
inside a Docker container:
docker run -d --name fake-gcs-server -p 4443:4443 buu700/fake-gcs-server-go116
Preload data
In case you want to preload some data in fake-gcs-server
just mount a
folder in the container at /data
:
docker run -d --name fake-gcs-server -p 4443:4443 -v ${PWD}/examples/data:/data buu700/fake-gcs-server-go116
Where the content of ${PWD}/examples/data
is something like:
.
└── sample-bucket
└── some_file.txt
To make sure everything works as expected you can execute these commands:
curl --insecure https://0.0.0.0:4443/storage/v1/b
{"kind":"storage#buckets","items":[{"kind":"storage#bucket","id":"sample-bucket","name":"sample-bucket"}],"prefixes":null}
curl --insecure https://0.0.0.0:4443/storage/v1/b/sample-bucket/o
{"kind":"storage#objects","items":[{"kind":"storage#object","name":"some_file.txt","id":"sample-bucket/some_file.txt","bucket":"sample-bucket","size":"33"}],"prefixes":[]}
This will result in one bucket called sample-bucket
containing one object called some_file.txt
.
Running with HTTP
fake-gcs-server defaults to HTTPS, but it can also be used with HTTP. The flag
-scheme
can be used to specify the protocol. For example, the previous
example could be changed to pass -scheme http
:
docker run -d --name fake-gcs-server -p 4443:4443 -v ${PWD}/examples/data:/data buu700/fake-gcs-server-go116 -scheme http
And now we can curl it without the --insecure
flag and using http://
instead of https://
:
curl http://0.0.0.0:4443/storage/v1/b
{"kind":"storage#buckets","items":[{"kind":"storage#bucket","id":"sample-bucket","name":"sample-bucket"}],"prefixes":null}
curl http://0.0.0.0:4443/storage/v1/b/sample-bucket/o
{"kind":"storage#objects","items":[{"kind":"storage#object","name":"some_file.txt","id":"sample-bucket/some_file.txt","bucket":"sample-bucket","size":"33"}],"prefixes":[]}
Using with signed URLs
It is possible to use fake-gcs-server with signed URLs, although with a few caveats:
- No validation is made on the query params (signature, expiration ...)
- You need your client to modify the URL before passing it around (replace
storage.googleapis.com
with something that points to fake-gcs-server)
- You need to configure fake-gcs-server to accept this local URL (by setting
-public-host
)
Available server flags
fake-gcs-server supports various features that can be configured through flags
upon start. Use the -help
flag to list all of them alongside their usage
instructions
docker run --rm buu700/fake-gcs-server-go116 -help
Client library examples
For examples using SDK from multiple languages, check out the
examples
directory.
Building the image locally
You may use docker build
to build the image locally instead of pulling it
from Docker Hub:
docker build -t buu700/fake-gcs-server-go116 .