Create and manage managed folders

This guide describes how to create, list, and delete managed folders.

Before you begin

To create and manage managed folders, you must first enable uniform bucket-level access and get the required IAM roles.

Enable uniform bucket-level access

If you haven't already, enable uniform bucket-level access.

Get required roles

To get the permissions that you need to create and manage managed folders, ask your administrator to grant you the Storage Folder Admin (roles/storage.folderAdmin) IAM role on the bucket.

This predefined role contains the permissions required to create and manage managed folders. To see the exact permissions that are required, expand the Required permissions section:

Required permissions

The following permissions are required to create and manage managed folders:

  • To create managed folders: storage.managedFolders.create
  • To validate newly created managed folders by listing them: storage.objects.list
  • To list managed folders: storage.managedFolders.list
  • To get managed folders: storage.managedFolders.get
  • To move managed folders:
    • storage.managedFolders.delete (on the source bucket)
    • storage.managedFolders.create (on the destination bucket)
  • To delete managed folders: storage.managedFolders.delete

For information about granting roles on buckets, see Use IAM with buckets.

Create a managed folder

Console

When using the Google Cloud console, you create managed folders by enabling management on folders or simulated folders. The following steps describe how to create a folder or a simulated folder and then enable folder management:

  1. In the Google Cloud console, go to the Cloud Storage Buckets page.

    Go to Buckets

  2. In the list of buckets, click the name of the bucket you want to create managed folders in.

  3. In the Bucket details page, click Create folder to create a new folder. If the folder you want to convert to a managed folder already exists, skip to the step describing how to access the More options menu.

  4. In the Name field, enter a name for your folder. For naming considerations, see Managed folder names.

  5. Click Create.

    Your newly created folder appears in the Folder browser pane.

  6. In the Folder browser pane, click the More options menu next to the folder you want to convert to a managed folder and click Edit access.

    The Enable folder management? dialog appears.

  7. Click Enable.

    Your folder converts to a managed folder. A Permissions for MANAGED_FOLDER_NAME pane appears that displays the IAM policies on the folder by principal and role. To create new IAM policies, see Set an IAM policy on a managed folder.

Command line

To create a managed folder, run the gcloud storage managed-folders create command:

gcloud storage managed-folders create gs://BUCKET_NAME/MANAGED_FOLDER_NAME

Where:

  • BUCKET_NAME is the name of the bucket in which you want to create a managed folder. For example, my-bucket.

  • MANAGED_FOLDER_NAME is the name of the managed folder you want to create. For example, my-managed-folder/.

To confirm that the managed folder was created, run the gcloud storage managed-folders describe command:

gcloud storage managed-folders describe gs://BUCKET_NAME/MANAGED_FOLDER_NAME

Where:

  • BUCKET_NAME is the name of the bucket in which you created a managed folder.

  • MANAGED_FOLDER_NAME is the name of the managed folder you created.

Client libraries

C++

For more information, see the Cloud Storage C++ API reference documentation.

To authenticate to Cloud Storage, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for client libraries. 

namespace storagecontrol = google::cloud::storagecontrol_v2;
[](storagecontrol::StorageControlClient client,
   std::string const& bucket_name, std::string const& managed_folder_id) {
  auto const parent = std::string{"projects/_/buckets/"} + bucket_name;
  auto managed_folder = client.CreateManagedFolder(
      parent, google::storage::control::v2::ManagedFolder{},
      managed_folder_id);
  if (!managed_folder) throw std::move(managed_folder).status();

  std::cout << "Created managed folder: " << managed_folder->name() << "\n";
}

C#

For more information, see the Cloud Storage C# API reference documentation.

To authenticate to Cloud Storage, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for client libraries. 

using Google.Cloud.Storage.Control.V2;
using System;

public class StorageControlCreateManagedFolderSample
{
    public ManagedFolder StorageControlCreateManagedFolder(string bucketId = "your-unique-bucket-name",
        string managedFolderId = "your_managed_folder_id")
    {
        StorageControlClient storageControl = StorageControlClient.Create();

        ManagedFolder managedFolder = storageControl.CreateManagedFolder(
            // Set project to "_" to signify globally scoped bucket
            new BucketName("_", bucketId),
            new ManagedFolder(),
            managedFolderId
        );

        Console.WriteLine($"Managed Folder {managedFolderId} created in bucket {bucketId}");
        return managedFolder;
    }
}

Java

For more information, see the Cloud Storage Java API reference documentation.

To authenticate to Cloud Storage, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for client libraries. 


import com.google.storage.control.v2.BucketName;
import com.google.storage.control.v2.CreateManagedFolderRequest;
import com.google.storage.control.v2.ManagedFolder;
import com.google.storage.control.v2.StorageControlClient;

public class CreateManagedFolder {
  public static void managedFolderCreate(String bucketName, String managedFolderId)
      throws Exception {

    // Instantiates a client in a try-with-resource to automatically cleanup underlying resources
    try (StorageControlClient storageControlClient = StorageControlClient.create()) {
      CreateManagedFolderRequest request =
          CreateManagedFolderRequest.newBuilder()
              // Set project to "_" to signify global bucket
              .setParent(BucketName.format("_", bucketName))
              .setManagedFolder(ManagedFolder.newBuilder().build())
              .setManagedFolderId(managedFolderId)
              .build();
      String response = storageControlClient.createManagedFolder(request).getName();
      System.out.printf("Performed createManagedFolder request for %s%n", response);
    }
  }
}

Node.js

For more information, see the Cloud Storage Node.js API reference documentation.

To authenticate to Cloud Storage, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for client libraries. 

/**
 * TODO(developer): Uncomment these variables before running the sample.
 */

// The name of your GCS bucket
// const bucketName = 'bucketName';

// The name of the managed folder to be created
// const managedFolderName = 'managedFolderName';

// Imports the Control library
const {StorageControlClient} = require('@google-cloud/storage-control').v2;

// Instantiates a client
const controlClient = new StorageControlClient();

async function callCreateManagedFolder() {
  const bucketPath = controlClient.bucketPath('_', bucketName);

  // Create the request
  const request = {
    parent: bucketPath,
    managedFolderId: managedFolderName,
  };

  // Run request
  const [response] = await controlClient.createManagedFolder(request);
  console.log(`Created managed folder: ${response.name}.`);
}

callCreateManagedFolder();

PHP

For more information, see the Cloud Storage PHP API reference documentation.

To authenticate to Cloud Storage, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for client libraries. 

use Google\Cloud\Storage\Control\V2\Client\StorageControlClient;
use Google\Cloud\Storage\Control\V2\CreateManagedFolderRequest;
use Google\Cloud\Storage\Control\V2\ManagedFolder;

/**
 * Create a new folder in an existing bucket.
 *
 * @param string $bucketName The name of your Cloud Storage bucket.
 *        (e.g. 'my-bucket')
 * @param string $managedFolderId The name of your folder inside the bucket.
 *        (e.g. 'my-folder')
 */
function managed_folder_create(string $bucketName, string $managedFolderId): void
{
    $storageControlClient = new StorageControlClient();

    // Set project to "_" to signify global bucket
    $formattedName = $storageControlClient->bucketName('_', $bucketName);

    // $request = new CreateManagedFolderRequest([
    //     'parent' => $formattedName,
    //     'managedFolder' => new ManagedFolder(),
    //     'managedFolderId' => $managedFolderId,
    // ]);
    $request = CreateManagedFolderRequest::build($formattedName, new ManagedFolder(), $managedFolderId);

    $managedFolder = $storageControlClient->createManagedFolder($request);

    printf('Performed createManagedFolder request for %s', $managedFolder->getName());
}

Python

For more information, see the Cloud Storage Python API reference documentation.

To authenticate to Cloud Storage, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for client libraries. 

from google.cloud import storage_control_v2


def create_managed_folder(bucket_name: str, managed_folder_id: str) -> None:
    # The ID of your GCS bucket
    # bucket_name = "your-unique-bucket-name"

    # The name of the managed folder to be created
    # managed_folder_id = "managed-folder-name"

    storage_control_client = storage_control_v2.StorageControlClient()
    # The storage bucket path uses the global access pattern, in which the "_"
    # denotes this bucket exists in the global namespace.
    project_path = storage_control_client.common_project_path("_")
    bucket_path = f"{project_path}/buckets/{bucket_name}"

    request = storage_control_v2.CreateManagedFolderRequest(
        parent=bucket_path,
        managed_folder_id=managed_folder_id,
    )
    response = storage_control_client.create_managed_folder(request=request)

    print(f"Created managed folder: {response.name}")

Ruby

For more information, see the Cloud Storage Ruby API reference documentation.

To authenticate to Cloud Storage, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for client libraries. 

def create_managed_folder bucket_name:, managed_folder_id:
  # The ID of your GCS bucket
  # bucket_name = "your-unique-bucket-name"

  # The name of the managed folder to be created
  # managed_folder_id = "managed-folder-name"

  require "google/cloud/storage/control"

  storage_control = Google::Cloud::Storage::Control.storage_control

  # The storage bucket path uses the global access pattern, in which the "_"
  # denotes this bucket exists in the global namespace.
  bucket_path = storage_control.bucket_path project: "_", bucket: bucket_name

  request = Google::Cloud::Storage::Control::V2::CreateManagedFolderRequest.new parent: bucket_path,
                                                                                managed_folder_id: managed_folder_id

  response = storage_control.create_managed_folder request

  puts "Created managed folder: #{response.name}"
end

REST APIs

JSON API

  1. Have gcloud CLI installed and initialized, which lets you generate an access token for the Authorization header.

  2. Use cURL to call the JSON API with a POST ManagedFolder request:

    curl -X POST -H "Authorization: Bearer $(gcloud auth print-access-token)" \
-d '{ "name": "MANAGED_FOLDER_NAME" }' \
  "https://storage.googleapis.com/storage/v1/b/BUCKET_NAME/managedFolders"

    Where:

    • BUCKET_NAME is the name of the bucket in which you want to create a managed folder. For example, my-bucket.

    • MANAGED_FOLDER_NAME is the name of the managed folder you want to create. For example, my-managed-folder/.

List managed folders

Console

  1. In the Google Cloud console, go to the Cloud Storage Buckets page.

    Go to Buckets

  2. From the Folder browser pane, use the toggle node to expand the list of folders within your bucket.

A list displays the folders, simulated folders, and managed folders in your bucket.

Command line

To list managed folders, run the gcloud storage managed-folders list command:

gcloud storage managed-folders list gs://BUCKET_NAME

Where:

  • BUCKET_NAME is the name of the bucket that contains the managed folders you want to list. For example, my-bucket.

Note that you can also specify a folder path instead of a bucket name. For example:

gcloud storage managed-folders list gs://my-bucket/folder/

Client libraries

C++

For more information, see the Cloud Storage C++ API reference documentation.

To authenticate to Cloud Storage, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for client libraries. 

namespace storagecontrol = google::cloud::storagecontrol_v2;
[](storagecontrol::StorageControlClient client,
   std::string const& bucket_name) {
  auto const parent = std::string{"projects/_/buckets/"} + bucket_name;
  for (auto managed_folder : client.ListManagedFolders(parent)) {
    if (!managed_folder) throw std::move(managed_folder).status();
    std::cout << managed_folder->name() << "\n";
  }

  std::cout << bucket_name << std::endl;
}

C#

For more information, see the Cloud Storage C# API reference documentation.

To authenticate to Cloud Storage, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for client libraries. 

using Google.Cloud.Storage.Control.V2;
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;

public class StorageControlListManagedFoldersSample
{
    public IEnumerable<ManagedFolder> StorageControlListManagedFolders(string bucketId = "your-unique-bucket-name")
    {
        StorageControlClient storageControl = StorageControlClient.Create();

        // Use "_" for project ID to signify globally scoped bucket
        BucketName bucketResourceName = new BucketName("_", bucketId);
        var managedFolders = storageControl.ListManagedFolders(bucketResourceName);

        foreach (var managedFolder in managedFolders)
        {
            Console.Write(managedFolder.Name);
        }
        return managedFolders;
    }
}

Java

For more information, see the Cloud Storage Java API reference documentation.

To authenticate to Cloud Storage, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for client libraries. 


import com.google.storage.control.v2.BucketName;
import com.google.storage.control.v2.ListManagedFoldersRequest;
import com.google.storage.control.v2.ManagedFolder;
import com.google.storage.control.v2.StorageControlClient;

class ListManagedFolders {

  public static void managedFolderList(String bucketName) throws Exception {
    // Instantiates a client in a try-with-resource to automatically cleanup underlying resources
    try (StorageControlClient storageControlClient = StorageControlClient.create()) {
      ListManagedFoldersRequest listManagedFoldersRequest =
          ListManagedFoldersRequest.newBuilder()
              // Set project to "_" to signify global bucket
              .setParent(BucketName.format("_", bucketName))
              .build();
      Iterable<ManagedFolder> managedFolders =
          storageControlClient.listManagedFolders(listManagedFoldersRequest).iterateAll();
      for (ManagedFolder folder : managedFolders) {
        System.out.printf("%s bucket has managed folder %s%n", bucketName, folder.getName());
      }
    }
  }
}

Node.js

For more information, see the Cloud Storage Node.js API reference documentation.

To authenticate to Cloud Storage, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for client libraries. 

/**
 * TODO(developer): Uncomment these variables before running the sample.
 */

// The name of your GCS bucket
// const bucketName = 'bucketName';

// Imports the Control library
const {StorageControlClient} = require('@google-cloud/storage-control').v2;

// Instantiates a client
const controlClient = new StorageControlClient();

async function callListManagedFolders() {
  const bucketPath = controlClient.bucketPath('_', bucketName);

  // Create the request
  const request = {
    parent: bucketPath,
  };

  // Run request
  const [folders] = await controlClient.listManagedFolders(request);
  for (const curManagedFolder of folders) {
    console.log(curManagedFolder.name);
  }
}

callListManagedFolders();

PHP

For more information, see the Cloud Storage PHP API reference documentation.

To authenticate to Cloud Storage, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for client libraries. 

use Google\Cloud\Storage\Control\V2\Client\StorageControlClient;
use Google\Cloud\Storage\Control\V2\ListManagedFoldersRequest;

/**
 * List folders in an existing bucket.
 *
 * @param string $bucketName The name of your Cloud Storage bucket.
 *        (e.g. 'my-bucket')
 */
function managed_folders_list(string $bucketName): void
{
    $storageControlClient = new StorageControlClient();

    // Set project to "_" to signify global bucket
    $formattedName = $storageControlClient->bucketName('_', $bucketName);

    $request = new ListManagedFoldersRequest([
        'parent' => $formattedName,
    ]);

    $folders = $storageControlClient->listManagedFolders($request);

    foreach ($folders as $folder) {
        printf('%s bucket has managed folder %s' . PHP_EOL, $bucketName, $folder->getName());
    }
}

Python

For more information, see the Cloud Storage Python API reference documentation.

To authenticate to Cloud Storage, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for client libraries. 

from google.cloud import storage_control_v2


def list_managed_folders(bucket_name: str) -> None:
    # The ID of your GCS bucket
    # bucket_name = "your-unique-bucket-name"

    storage_control_client = storage_control_v2.StorageControlClient()
    # The storage bucket path uses the global access pattern, in which the "_"
    # denotes this bucket exists in the global namespace.
    project_path = storage_control_client.common_project_path("_")
    bucket_path = f"{project_path}/buckets/{bucket_name}"

    request = storage_control_v2.ListManagedFoldersRequest(
        parent=bucket_path,
    )

    page_result = storage_control_client.list_managed_folders(request=request)
    for managed_folder in page_result:
        print(managed_folder)

    print(f"Listed managed folders in bucket {bucket_name}")

Ruby

For more information, see the Cloud Storage Ruby API reference documentation.

To authenticate to Cloud Storage, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for client libraries. 

def list_managed_folders bucket_name:
  # The ID of your GCS bucket
  # bucket_name = "your-unique-bucket-name"

  require "google/cloud/storage/control"

  storage_control = Google::Cloud::Storage::Control.storage_control

  # The storage bucket path uses the global access pattern, in which the "_"
  # denotes this bucket exists in the global namespace.
  bucket_path = storage_control.bucket_path project: "_", bucket: bucket_name

  request = Google::Cloud::Storage::Control::V2::ListManagedFoldersRequest.new parent: bucket_path

  managed_folders = storage_control.list_managed_folders request
  managed_folders.each do |managed_folder|
    puts managed_folder
  end

  puts "Listed managed folders in bucket #{bucket_name}"
end

REST APIs

JSON API

  1. Have gcloud CLI installed and initialized, which lets you generate an access token for the Authorization header.

  2. Use cURL to call the JSON API with a request to list managed folders:

    curl -X GET -H "Authorization: Bearer $(gcloud auth print-access-token)" \
"https://storage.googleapis.com/storage/v1/b/BUCKET_NAME/managedFolders"

    Where BUCKET_NAME is the name of the bucket that contains the managed folders you want to list. For example, my-bucket.

Get the metadata of a managed folder

Command line

To get the metadata of a managed folder, run the gcloud storage managed-folders describe command:

  gcloud storage managed-folders describe gs://BUCKET_NAME/MANAGED_FOLDER_NAME

Where:

  • BUCKET_NAME is the name of the bucket that contains the managed folders you want to list. For example, my-bucket.

  • MANAGED_FOLDER_NAME is the name of the managed folder you want to retrieve metadata for.

Client libraries

C++

For more information, see the Cloud Storage C++ API reference documentation.

To authenticate to Cloud Storage, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for client libraries. 

namespace storagecontrol = google::cloud::storagecontrol_v2;
[](storagecontrol::StorageControlClient client,
   std::string const& bucket_name, std::string const& managed_folder_id) {
  auto const name = std::string{"projects/_/buckets/"} + bucket_name +
                    "/managedFolders/" + managed_folder_id;
  auto managed_folder = client.GetManagedFolder(name);
  if (!managed_folder) throw std::move(managed_folder).status();

  std::cout << "Got managed folder: " << managed_folder->name() << "\n";
}

C#

For more information, see the Cloud Storage C# API reference documentation.

To authenticate to Cloud Storage, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for client libraries. 

using Google.Cloud.Storage.Control.V2;
using System;

public class StorageControlGetManagedFolderSample
{
    public ManagedFolder StorageControlGetManagedFolder(string bucketId = "your-unique-bucket-name",
        string managedFolderId = "your_managed_folder_Id")
    {
        StorageControlClient storageControl = StorageControlClient.Create();

        ManagedFolderName managedFolderResourceName =
            // Set project to "_" to signify globally scoped bucket
            new ManagedFolderName("_", bucketId, managedFolderId);

        ManagedFolder managedFolder = storageControl.GetManagedFolder(managedFolderResourceName);

        Console.WriteLine($"Got managed folder: {managedFolder.Name}");
        return managedFolder;
    }
}

Java

For more information, see the Cloud Storage Java API reference documentation.

To authenticate to Cloud Storage, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for client libraries. 


import com.google.storage.control.v2.BucketName;
import com.google.storage.control.v2.GetManagedFolderRequest;
import com.google.storage.control.v2.ManagedFolder;
import com.google.storage.control.v2.ManagedFolderName;
import com.google.storage.control.v2.StorageControlClient;

class GetManagedFolder {

  public static void managedFolderGet(String bucketName, String managedFolderId) throws Exception {
    // Instantiates a client in a try-with-resource to automatically cleanup underlying resources
    try (StorageControlClient storageControlClient = StorageControlClient.create()) {
      // Set project to "_" to signify global bucket
      BucketName resourceBucketName = BucketName.of("_", bucketName);
      GetManagedFolderRequest getManagedFolderRequest =
          GetManagedFolderRequest.newBuilder()
              .setName(
                  ManagedFolderName.format(
                      resourceBucketName.getProject(),
                      resourceBucketName.getBucket(),
                      managedFolderId))
              .build();
      ManagedFolder managedFolder = storageControlClient.getManagedFolder(getManagedFolderRequest);
      System.out.printf("Got Managed Folder %s%n", managedFolder.getName());
    }
  }
}

Node.js

For more information, see the Cloud Storage Node.js API reference documentation.

To authenticate to Cloud Storage, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for client libraries. 

/**
 * TODO(developer): Uncomment these variables before running the sample.
 */

// The name of your GCS bucket
// const bucketName = 'bucketName';

// The name of the managed folder to get
// const managedFolderName = 'managedFolderName';

// Imports the Control library
const {StorageControlClient} = require('@google-cloud/storage-control').v2;

// Instantiates a client
const controlClient = new StorageControlClient();

async function callGetManagedFolder() {
  const managedFolderPath = controlClient.managedFolderPath(
    '_',
    bucketName,
    managedFolderName
  );

  // Create the request
  const request = {
    name: managedFolderPath,
  };

  // Run request
  const [response] = await controlClient.getManagedFolder(request);
  console.log(`Got managed folder: ${response.name}.`);
}

callGetManagedFolder();

PHP

For more information, see the Cloud Storage PHP API reference documentation.

To authenticate to Cloud Storage, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for client libraries. 

use Google\Cloud\Storage\Control\V2\Client\StorageControlClient;
use Google\Cloud\Storage\Control\V2\GetManagedFolderRequest;

/**
 * Get a folder in an existing bucket.
 *
 * @param string $bucketName The name of your Cloud Storage bucket.
 *        (e.g. 'my-bucket')
 * @param string $managedFolderId The name of your folder inside the bucket.
 *        (e.g. 'my-folder')
 */
function managed_folder_get(string $bucketName, string $managedFolderId): void
{
    $storageControlClient = new StorageControlClient();

    // Set project to "_" to signify global bucket
    $formattedName = $storageControlClient->managedFolderName('_', $bucketName, $managedFolderId);

    $request = new GetManagedFolderRequest([
        'name' => $formattedName,
    ]);

    $managedFolder = $storageControlClient->getManagedFolder($request);

    printf('Got Managed Folder %s', $managedFolder->getName());
}

Python

For more information, see the Cloud Storage Python API reference documentation.

To authenticate to Cloud Storage, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for client libraries. 

from google.cloud import storage_control_v2


def get_managed_folder(bucket_name: str, managed_folder_id: str) -> None:
    # The ID of your GCS bucket
    # bucket_name = "your-unique-bucket-name"

    # The name of the managed folder
    # managed_folder_id = "managed-folder-name"

    storage_control_client = storage_control_v2.StorageControlClient()
    # The storage bucket path uses the global access pattern, in which the "_"
    # denotes this bucket exists in the global namespace.
    folder_path = storage_control_client.managed_folder_path(
        "_", bucket_name, managed_folder_id
    )

    request = storage_control_v2.GetManagedFolderRequest(
        name=folder_path,
    )
    response = storage_control_client.get_managed_folder(request=request)

    print(f"Got managed folder: {response.name}")

Ruby

For more information, see the Cloud Storage Ruby API reference documentation.

To authenticate to Cloud Storage, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for client libraries. 

def get_managed_folder bucket_name:, managed_folder_id:
  # The ID of your GCS bucket
  # bucket_name = "your-unique-bucket-name"

  # The name of the managed folder to be created
  # managed_folder_id = "managed-folder-name"

  require "google/cloud/storage/control"

  storage_control = Google::Cloud::Storage::Control.storage_control

  # The storage bucket path uses the global access pattern, in which the "_"
  # denotes this bucket exists in the global namespace.
  folder_path = storage_control.managed_folder_path project: "_",
                                                    bucket: bucket_name,
                                                    managed_folder: managed_folder_id

  request = Google::Cloud::Storage::Control::V2::GetManagedFolderRequest.new name: folder_path

  response = storage_control.get_managed_folder request

  puts "Got managed folder: #{response.name}"
end

REST APIs

JSON API

  1. Have gcloud CLI installed and initialized, which lets you generate an access token for the Authorization header.

  2. Use cURL to call the JSON API with a request to get managed folders:

    curl -X GET -H "Authorization: Bearer $(gcloud auth print-access-token)" \
"https://storage.googleapis.com/storage/v1/b/BUCKET_NAME/managedFolders/MANAGED_FOLDER_NAME"

    Where:

    • BUCKET_NAME is the name of the bucket that contains the managed folders you want to get. For example, my-bucket.

    • MANAGED_FOLDER_NAME is the name of the managed folder expressed as a path. For example, example-dir/. If the managed folder is nested, the slash (/) character in the managed folder path must be escaped. For example, example-dir1%2Fexample-dir2.

Move a managed folder

Console

  1. Create a new managed folder in the destination bucket.

  2. Copy the IAM policies from the original managed folder in the source bucket into the new managed folder in the destination bucket.

  3. Copy the objects from the original managed folder in the source bucket to the new managed folder in the destination bucket.

  4. Delete the original managed folder from the source bucket.

Command line

To move managed folders and the objects they contain, run the gcloud storage mv command with the --include-managed-folders option:

gcloud storage mv --include-managed-folders gs://SOURCE_BUCKET_NAME/MANAGED_FOLDER_NAME gs://DESTINATION_BUCKET_NAME/MANAGED_FOLDER_NAME

Where:

  • SOURCE_BUCKET is the name of your original bucket. For example, my-source-bucket`.

  • DESTINATION_BUCKET is the name of the bucket you are moving your managed folder to. For example, my-destination-bucket.

  • MANAGED_FOLDER_NAME is the name of the managed folder you're moving. For example, my-managed-folder/.

REST APIs

JSON API

To move managed folders from one bucket to another, complete the following steps:

  1. Create a new managed folder in the destination bucket.

  2. Copy the IAM policies from the original managed folder in the source bucket to the new managed folder in the destination bucket.

  3. Copy the objects from the original managed folder in the source bucket to the new managed folder in the destination bucket.

  4. Delete the original managed folder from the source bucket.

Delete a managed folder

Console

  1. In the Google Cloud console, go to the Cloud Storage Buckets page.

    Go to Buckets

  2. In the list of buckets, click the name of the bucket that contains the managed folder you want to delete.

  3. In the Bucket details page, click the More options icon next to the managed folder you want to delete.

  4. Click Delete folder.

  5. To confirm that you want to delete the managed folder, type DELETE in Delete field.

  6. Click Delete.

    The managed folder and its contents, including stored objects and other managed folders, are deleted from your Cloud Storage bucket.

Command line

To delete a managed folder and the objects it contains, run the gcloud storage rm command:

gcloud storage rm -r gs://BUCKET_NAME/MANAGED_FOLDER_NAME

Where:

  • BUCKET_NAME is the name of the bucket that contains the managed folder you want to delete. For example, my-bucket.

  • MANAGED_FOLDER_NAME is the name of the managed folder you want to delete. For example, my-managed-folder/.

Client libraries

C++

For more information, see the Cloud Storage C++ API reference documentation.

To authenticate to Cloud Storage, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for client libraries. 

namespace storagecontrol = google::cloud::storagecontrol_v2;
[](storagecontrol::StorageControlClient client,
   std::string const& bucket_name, std::string const& managed_folder_id) {
  auto const name = std::string{"projects/_/buckets/"} + bucket_name +
                    "/managedFolders/" + managed_folder_id;
  auto status = client.DeleteManagedFolder(name);
  if (!status.ok()) throw std::move(status);

  std::cout << "Deleted managed folder: " << managed_folder_id << "\n";
}

C#

For more information, see the Cloud Storage C# API reference documentation.

To authenticate to Cloud Storage, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for client libraries. 

using Google.Cloud.Storage.Control.V2;
using System;

public class StorageControlDeleteManagedFolderSample
{
    public void StorageControlDeleteManagedFolder(string bucketId = "your-unique-bucket-name",
        string managedFolderId = "your_managed_folder_id")
    {
        StorageControlClient storageControl = StorageControlClient.Create();

        ManagedFolderName managedFolderResourceName =
            // Set project to "_" to signify globally scoped bucket
            new ManagedFolderName("_", bucketId, managedFolderId);

        storageControl.DeleteManagedFolder(managedFolderResourceName);

        Console.WriteLine($"Deleted managed folder {managedFolderId} from bucket {bucketId}");
    }
}

Java

For more information, see the Cloud Storage Java API reference documentation.

To authenticate to Cloud Storage, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for client libraries. 

import com.google.storage.control.v2.BucketName;
import com.google.storage.control.v2.DeleteManagedFolderRequest;
import com.google.storage.control.v2.ManagedFolderName;
import com.google.storage.control.v2.StorageControlClient;

class DeleteManagedFolder {
  public static void managedFolderDelete(String bucketName, String managedFolderId)
      throws Exception {
    // Instantiates a client in a try-with-resource to automatically cleanup underlying resources
    try (StorageControlClient storageControlClient = StorageControlClient.create()) {
      // Set project to "_" to signify global bucket
      BucketName resourceBucketName = BucketName.of("_", bucketName);
      DeleteManagedFolderRequest deleteManagedFolderRequest =
          DeleteManagedFolderRequest.newBuilder()
              .setName(
                  ManagedFolderName.format(
                      resourceBucketName.getProject(),
                      resourceBucketName.getBucket(),
                      managedFolderId))
              .build();
      storageControlClient.deleteManagedFolder(deleteManagedFolderRequest);
      System.out.printf("Deleted Managed Folder %s%n", managedFolderId);
    }
  }
}

Node.js

For more information, see the Cloud Storage Node.js API reference documentation.

To authenticate to Cloud Storage, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for client libraries. 

/**
 * TODO(developer): Uncomment these variables before running the sample.
 */

// The name of your GCS bucket
// const bucketName = 'bucketName';

// The name of the folder to be deleted
// const managedFolderName = 'managedFolderName';

// Imports the Control library
const {StorageControlClient} = require('@google-cloud/storage-control').v2;

// Instantiates a client
const controlClient = new StorageControlClient();

async function callDeleteManagedFolder() {
  const managedFolderPath = controlClient.managedFolderPath(
    '_',
    bucketName,
    managedFolderName
  );

  // Create the request
  const request = {
    name: managedFolderPath,
  };

  // Run request
  await controlClient.deleteManagedFolder(request);
  console.log(`Deleted managed folder: ${managedFolderName}.`);
}

callDeleteManagedFolder();

PHP

For more information, see the Cloud Storage PHP API reference documentation.

To authenticate to Cloud Storage, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for client libraries. 

use Google\Cloud\Storage\Control\V2\Client\StorageControlClient;
use Google\Cloud\Storage\Control\V2\DeleteManagedFolderRequest;

/**
 * Delete a folder in an existing bucket.
 *
 * @param string $bucketName The name of your Cloud Storage bucket.
 *        (e.g. 'my-bucket')
 * @param string $managedFolderId The id of your folder inside the bucket.
 *        (e.g. 'my-folder')
 */
function managed_folder_delete(string $bucketName, string $managedFolderId): void
{
    $storageControlClient = new StorageControlClient();

    // Set project to "_" to signify global bucket
    $formattedName = $storageControlClient->managedFolderName('_', $bucketName, $managedFolderId);

    $request = DeleteManagedFolderRequest::build($formattedName);

    $storageControlClient->deleteManagedFolder($request);

    printf('Deleted Managed Folder %s', $managedFolderId);
}

Python

For more information, see the Cloud Storage Python API reference documentation.

To authenticate to Cloud Storage, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for client libraries. 

from google.cloud import storage_control_v2


def delete_managed_folder(bucket_name: str, managed_folder_id: str) -> None:
    # The ID of your GCS bucket
    # bucket_name = "your-unique-bucket-name"

    # The name of the managed folder to be deleted
    # managed_folder_id = "managed-folder-name"

    storage_control_client = storage_control_v2.StorageControlClient()
    # The storage bucket path uses the global access pattern, in which the "_"
    # denotes this bucket exists in the global namespace.
    folder_path = storage_control_client.managed_folder_path(
        "_", bucket_name, managed_folder_id
    )

    request = storage_control_v2.DeleteManagedFolderRequest(
        name=folder_path,
    )
    storage_control_client.delete_managed_folder(request=request)

    print(f"Deleted managed folder: {managed_folder_id}")

Ruby

For more information, see the Cloud Storage Ruby API reference documentation.

To authenticate to Cloud Storage, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for client libraries. 

def delete_managed_folder bucket_name:, managed_folder_id:
  # The ID of your GCS bucket
  # bucket_name = "your-unique-bucket-name"

  # The name of the managed folder to be created
  # managed_folder_id = "managed-folder-name"

  require "google/cloud/storage/control"

  storage_control = Google::Cloud::Storage::Control.storage_control

  # The storage bucket path uses the global access pattern, in which the "_"
  # denotes this bucket exists in the global namespace.
  folder_path = storage_control.managed_folder_path project: "_",
                                                    bucket: bucket_name,
                                                    managed_folder: managed_folder_id

  request = Google::Cloud::Storage::Control::V2::DeleteManagedFolderRequest.new name: folder_path

  storage_control.delete_managed_folder request

  puts "Deleted managed folder: #{managed_folder_id}"
end

REST APIs

JSON API

To delete a managed folder, you must first delete the objects within the managed folder.

  1. Have gcloud CLI installed and initialized, which lets you generate an access token for the Authorization header.

  2. Use cURL to call the JSON API with a DELETE ManagedFolder request:

    curl -X DELETE -H "Authorization: Bearer $(gcloud auth print-access-token)" \
  "https://storage.googleapis.com/storage/v1/b/BUCKET_NAME/managedFolders/MANAGED_FOLDER_NAME"

    Where:

    • BUCKET_NAME is the name of the bucket that contains the managed folder you want to delete. For example, my-bucket.

    • MANAGED_FOLDER_NAME is the name of the managed folder you want to delete. For example, my-managed-folder/.

    By default, managed folders must be empty before they can be deleted. To delete a non-empty managed folder, include allowNonEmpty=true as a query parameter in your request.

Troubleshooting

For help creating and managing managed folders, refer to the Troubleshooting page.

Next steps