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Connect to Google Cloud Storage V2

Let's configure the Google Cloud Storage V2 connection properties to connect to Google Cloud Storage.

Before you begin

Complete the prerequisite tasks for your authentication type before you configure the Google Cloud Storage V2 connection.
Complete the prerequisites for Prerequisites for Service Account authentication or Prerequisites for Workload Identity Federation (Client Credentials) authentication, based on the authentication type that you use.

Connection details

The following table describes the Google Cloud Storage V2 connection properties:
Property
Description
Connection Name
Name of the connection.
Each connection name must be unique within the organization. Connection names can contain alphanumeric characters, spaces, and the following special characters: _ . + -,
Maximum length is 255 characters.
Description
Description of the connection. Maximum length is 4000 characters.
Use Secret Vault
Stores sensitive credentials for this connection in the secrets manager that is configured for your organization.
This property appears only if secrets manager is set up for your organization.
When you enable the secret vault in the connection, you can select the credentials that the Secure Agent retrieves from the secrets manager. If you don't enable this option, the credentials are stored in the repository or on a local Secure Agent, depending on how your organization is configured.
Note:
If you’re using this connection to apply data access policies through pushdown or proxy services, you cannot use the Secret Vault configuration option.
For information about how to configure and use a secrets manager, see Secrets manager configuration.
Runtime Environment
The name of the runtime environment where you want to run tasks.
Select a Secure Agent, Hosted Agent, or serverless runtime environment.
For more information about runtime environments, see Runtime environments.

Authentication types

You can connect to Google Cloud Storage with a service account key or with Workload Identity Federation (WIF).
The following table describes the authentication types that you can select in the connection:
Authentication Type
Description
Service Account
Authenticate with the credentials in a Google service account key file.
WIF (Client Credentials)
Authenticate with WIF and an identity provider that uses the OAuth 2.0 client credentials grant. The connection doesn't require a user to sign in. You can also impersonate a service account and access Google Cloud Storage resources in a different project. You can configure Microsoft Entra ID as the identity provider.
The default is Service Account.
After you select an authentication type, configure the properties for that type.