Uploading Storing and Linking to Images on Google Container Engine

Question

I am developing an app where users can upload images. The app has a NodeJs Backend an Angular Frontend with a Redis and Neo4j all dockerize and run by Kubernetes. Now I would like to store images, but there are so many service that I think could do the job that I don't know what to do... Can I use my Google Drive account and the Drive Sdk to upload the images of my users ? Should I look into Google Cloud Storage ? What about the persistence storage option in Kubernetes ? Or can I use my Flickr Account ??? Could someone point me the right direction... Thanks

Answer 1

For uploading and storing static files such as images in the cloud using GCP should probably be using Cloud Storage .

While both Google Drive and Google Cloud Storage provide an API to upload files, Cloud storage is more suited for your use case. I took this excerpt from here

Cloud Storage is intended to be accessed primarily through its API and provides all the functionality necessary for developers to use it as a backing store for their own applications.

and

Cloud Storage enables developers to store their application data in the Google cloud (and they're responsible for the storage their app consumes), whereas in Drive, users allow apps to interact with the user's private storage and content.