Releasing macOS app on GCP— Part 1
This is the first part of the series, you can find the rest below:
Assumptions
You use:
- Google Cloud Platform (gcp) for backend services
- Gitlab for you code repository
- Bitrise for your continuous integration and deployment
You are releasing:
- macOS app
Please note: You can follow most of the tutorial as you releasing iOS app, but the tutorial doesn’t cover an iOS app example.
How to create a bucket on GCP
Let’s assume you don’t have a storage bucket, in this case, you would need to create it. We need to create a bucket so that we can store our app executable there.
Start by proceeding to your gcp account, from there proceed to the Storage, as showed on the screenshot below:
Once you are there, click on Create Bucket button:
That will bring you to the Create a bucket page, which looks like this:
Provide a name for your bucket, it should be lowercased. You can check google bucket naming guidelines here.
I will name mine with the name of the application I want to release, and then click on Continue:
Next step is to choose where to store your data, I choose Region since it’s the cheapest option available 😅, then click on Continue :
Next step is to choose a default storage class, here you need to decide depending on your case. I simply picked Standard:
Next, is to choose how to control access to objects. I picked Fine-grained so I can provide the specific permissions to each individual user myself. Which ended up being a perfect case for me.
Next, and last step in our bucket creation is to simply accept the default and finally click on that bright blue-coloured Create button 😏
Congratulations you created your first ever bucket! Pretty easy, huh?
Now, you can move to the second part of these series.
