How to Create Buckets (mb) with the gsutil Utility

Before you upload data to Cloud Storage, you need to create one or more buckets. The command to know is mb:

gsutil mb [-c class] [-l location] [-p project_id] url…

The –c, –l, and –p flags are particularly important:

• -c: The bucket's storage class: multi_regional, regional, nearline, and coldline. (Default: multi_regional or regional).
• -l: The bucket's multi-regional location or regional location. (Default: us).
• -p: The project's ID. (Default: the ID in the gsutil configuration file).

For example, the following command creates a regional bucket named gs://dummies123-tfbook/example and associates it with the us-central1 region.

gsutil mb -c regional -l us-central1 gs://dummies123-tfbook/example