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gcp-bucket-session-store

v0.2.0

Published

A Google Cloud Platform Cloud Storage based session store for express-session

Downloads

8

Readme

GCB cloud storage bucket session store for express-session

Drawbacks

  • It's much slower than alternatives

Advantages

  • Bucket storage is highly scalable
  • Gradually cost scalable, pay for only what you use
  • Storage is cheap

Setup

You'll want to make sure the files in your bucket aren't cached. I think this is controlled my metadata setting on the file/bucket.

You'll want to make sure your server has permission to access GCP Storage API.

Some examples:

If you are running from a gcp compute instance, the appropriate "Access Scope" is read/write if the modifyCustomTime param is set to false (default) or full if modifyCustomTime is set to true.

If you are running on a local developer instance, you can auth with your Google credentials using the following command:

gcloud auth application-default login

For details and other ways to authenticate, see https://cloud.google.com/docs/authentication/provide-credentials-adc

TTL

Set a lifecycle event on your bucket. Constructor accepts a boolean option modifyCustomTime, which will modify metadata on the on the file to indicate the last modification time. Then you can create a lifecycle event for your bucket using DaysSinceCustomTime (https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/lifecycle)