Enable Lifecycle Management for Cloud Storage Objects

01 Sign in to Google Cloud Management Console.

02 Select the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) project that you want to examine from the console top navigation bar.

03 Navigate to Cloud Storage dashboard at https://console.cloud.google.com/storage.

04 In the navigation panel, select Browser to access the list with all the Cloud Storage buckets created for the selected project.

05 Choose the storage bucket that you want to examine and check the number of lifecycle management rules created for the objects inside the bucket, available in the Lifecycle rules column. If there are no lifecycle management rules created and the value is set to None, the objects stored within the selected Google Cloud Storage bucket are not using a lifecycle configuration to help manage storage costs.

06 Repeat step no. 5 for each storage bucket provisioned for the selected Google Cloud Platform (GCP) project.

07 Repeat steps no. 1 – 6 for each GCP project deployed in your Google Cloud account.

01 Run projects list command (Windows/macOS/Linux) using custom query filters to list the IDs of all the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) projects available in your cloud account:

gcloud projects list
	--format="table(projectId)"

02 The command output should return the requested GCP project IDs:

PROJECT_ID
cc-web-project-112233
cc-data-project-111222

03 Run gsutil ls command (using gsutil Python tool) to list the identifier of each storage bucket created for the specified GCP project:

gsutil ls -p cc-web-project-112233

04 The command output should return the requested storage resource name(s):

gs://cc-audit-log-bucket/
gs://cc-data-backup-bucket/

05 Run gsutil lifecycle get command (using gsutil tool) using the name of the Cloud Storage bucket that you want to examine as identifier parameter, to describe the lifecycle management configuration available for the selected bucket:

gsutil lifecycle get gs://cc-audit-log-bucket

06 The command output should return the requested lifecycle configuration metadata:

gs://cc-audit-log-bucket/ has no lifecycle configuration.

07 Repeat step no. 5 and 6 for each storage bucket available in the selected Google Cloud Platform (GCP) project.

08 Repeat step no. 1 – 7 for each GCP project created within your Google Cloud account.

01 Sign in to Google Cloud Management Console.

02 Select the GCP project that you want to access from the console top navigation bar.

03 Navigate to Cloud Storage dashboard at https://console.cloud.google.com/storage.

04 In the navigation panel, select Browser to access all the buckets created for the selected GCP project.

05 Choose the storage bucket that you want to reconfigure (see Audit section part I to identify the right bucket), then click on None value (link) available in the Lifecycle rules column.

06 On the View object lifecycle rules page, perform the following commands:

1. Click Add rule to add a new rule to the bucket's lifecycle management configuration. The new rule moves the objects stored inside the selected bucket to the Nearline Storage class 365 days after the objects are created.
2. For 1 Select object conditions, perform the following:
   • Select the Age checkbox and set the number of days after which the objects are moved to the Nearline Storage class. In this case, 365 days.
   • Select the Storage class checkbox and choose the storage class(es) of the objects that you want to transition. For our example, the object classes are Standard, Multi-Regional and Durable Reduced Availability.
   • Click Continue to continue the setup process.
3. For 2 Select action, choose Set to Nearline and click Continue.
4. Click Save to save the changes and create the new lifecycle management rule. After you create a lifecycle rule, it may take up to 24 hours to take effect.

07 If required, repeat step no. 5 and 6 to create and configure lifecycle rules for other Cloud Storage buckets available within the selected project.

08 Repeat steps no. 2 – 7 for each GCP project deployed in your Google Cloud account.

01 Define the necessary lifecycle management rule that you want to apply to the objects stored within the your Cloud Storage bucket, and save the rule contents to a JSON file named cc-object-lifecycle-rule.json. The following rule moves the objects stored inside the specified bucket to the Nearline Storage class 365 days after the objects are created:

{
  "lifecycle": {
    "rule": [
      {
        "action": {
          "type": "SetStorageClass",
          "storageClass": "NEARLINE"
        },
        "condition": {
          "age": 365,
          "matchesStorageClass": [
            "MULTI_REGIONAL",
            "STANDARD",
            "DURABLE_REDUCED_AVAILABILITY"
          ]
        }
      }
    ]
  }
}

02 Run gsutil lifecycle set command (using gsutil Python tool) using the name of the Google Cloud Storage bucket that you want to reconfigure as identifier parameter (see Audit section part II to identify the right resource), to add the lifecycle rule defined at the previous step (i.e. cc-object-lifecycle-rule.json) to the lifecycle management configuration of the selected bucket:

gsutil lifecycle set cc-lifecycle-rule.json gs://cc-audit-log-bucket

03 If successful, the command output should return the gsutil lifecycle set request status:

Setting lifecycle configuration on gs://cc-audit-log-bucket/...

04 If required, repeat steps no. 1 – 3 to define and set lifecycle rules for other Cloud Storage buckets available in the selected project.

05 Repeat steps no. 1 – 4 for each GCP project created within your Google Cloud account.