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How to access Google Cloud Storage Bucket with Service account JSON

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This method for gsutil to access Google Cloud Storage bucket with shared Service account with private key as JSON

Sample JSON Structure

{
  "type": "service_account",
  "project_id": "xxx",
  "private_key_id": "xxx",
  "private_key": "-----BEGIN PRIVATE KEY-----\name-----END PRIVATE KEY-----\n",
  "client_email": "xxx@xxx.iam.gserviceaccount.com",
  "client_id": "xxx",
  "auth_uri": "https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/auth",
  "token_uri": "https://oauth2.googleapis.com/token",
  "auth_provider_x509_cert_url": "https://www.googleapis.com/oauth2/v1/certs",
  "client_x509_cert_url": "https://www.googleapis.com/robot/v1/metadata/x509/xxx.iam.gserviceaccount.com"
}
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  1. Using gsutil config -e to set method to authentication
  2. Choose oAuth2 and provided full path of service account JSON file
  3. Then you can access with gsutil ls gs://{bucket-name}

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