Which Python Cloud Storage lib/API is "officially" supported by Google?

Question

I'm migrating a Python service out of Google App Engine over to GCE/GKE and could use some help identifying the current production-grade, SLA'd method for managing objects in Google Cloud Storage.

The one referenced by most of Google's storage docs is the google.cloud.storage library. This looks nice and simple. However, as of now -- Jan 2017 -- there's a big header at the top that identifies the library as Beta , and has no SLA or deprecation policy. I'd prefer to use an SLA'd service.

After a lot of searching I found this alternative JSON API example: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/storage-file-transfer-json-python but it's much more cumbersome and isn't clear that it's better supported.

Any advice on which API to use?
Or better examples for bootstrapping?
Thanks in advance

Answer 1

Google Cloud Storage, the service, is not in beta. It has an SLA and a deprecation policy. The client library you've found, the Google Cloud Client Library for Python (google-cloud) , is in beta, which means that it's possible that a future version of it might in some cases make backwards-incompatible changes. However, it's also the current gold standard for easiest-to-use client library.

I recommend you use that one. Another option is the Google Python API Client Library , which is not in beta, but I found the Google Cloud Client Library for Python to be substantially easier to use, which is important.