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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

Before you configure the Google Cloud Storage V2 Connector, complete the following prerequisite tasks:
  1. 1Ensure that you have a Google service account to access Google Cloud Storage.
  2. 2Ensure that you have the client email, project ID, and private key values for the service account. You will need to enter these details when you create a Google Cloud Storage V2 connection.
    3. The following video shows you how to get information from your Google account:
    https://infa.media/3R4gIwa
  3. 3Ensure that you have enabled the Google Cloud Storage JSON API for your service account. Google Cloud Storage V2 Connector uses the Google API to integrate with Google Cloud Storage.

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 which 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 the Informatica Cloud Hosted Agent.
Service Account ID
The client_email value from the Google service account key JSON file.
Service Account Key
The private_key value from the Google service account key JSON file.
To use the private key from the JSON file, enter the entire block of text found within the double quotation marks in the private_key field, starting with -----BEGIN PRIVATE KEY-----\n and ending at -----END PRIVATE KEY-----\n.
Project ID
The project_id value from the Google service account key JSON file.
If you have created multiple projects with the same service account, enter the ID of the project that contains the dataset that you want to connect to.
Optimize Object Metadata Import
Imports metadata for the selected object without parsing other objects, folders, or sub-folders available in the bucket.
This approach enhances performance by reducing the overhead and time taken to parse each object available in the bucket.
Default is not selected.
If you enable the option for an existing data loader task, you need to reimport the metadata by reselecting the object that you want to exclude.

Advanced settings

The following table describes the advanced connection properties:
Property
Description
Private Key ID
Does not apply to a data loader task.
Client ID
Does not apply to a data loader task.
Is Encrypted File
Does not apply to a data loader task.
Bucket Name
The Google Cloud Storage bucket name that you want to connect to.
When you select a source object , the Package Explorer lists files and folders available in the specified Google Cloud Storage bucket.
If you do not specify a bucket name, you can select a bucket from the Package Explorer to select a source.