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id: google-cloud-filestore
version: "1.17.1"
license: Apache-2.0
license_treatment: permissive
maintenance: active
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# google-cloud-filestore — Google Cloud Filestore API client library

License: permissive · Maintenance: active · Downloads: 308.1K/mo

## What it is and what it does

google-cloud-filestore is the official Python client for Google Cloud Filestore, a managed NFS file storage service. It provides programmatic access to create, configure, and manage Filestore instances in your Google Cloud projects. The library wraps the Cloud Filestore API and handles authentication, request serialization, and response parsing through dependencies like google-api-core, google-auth, and protobuf.

You would use this library when you need to automate Filestore operations—provisioning new file servers, listing existing instances, modifying configurations, or deleting resources—as part of infrastructure-as-code workflows or cloud management applications. It is not for mounting or accessing Filestore shares directly; it is for managing the Filestore service itself through the Google Cloud control plane.

Use it for:

- Automate provisioning of managed NFS file servers as part of infrastructure-as-code deployments.
- Build cloud management dashboards or CLIs that list, monitor, or modify Filestore instances programmatically.
- Integrate Filestore lifecycle operations into orchestration or automation frameworks.
- Manage Filestore resources across multiple Google Cloud projects in bulk operations.

## Worth the install?

AI-flagged interpretation of the facts above — verify before relying.

Python client library for creating and managing Cloud Filestore instances through the Google Cloud API.

Yes, if you are building applications or infrastructure tools that need to manage Google Cloud Filestore instances programmatically. The library is actively maintained, has low install friction, carries a permissive license, and has no known vulnerabilities. It is a standard dependency for anyone automating Filestore operations on Google Cloud.

## Install

pip install google-cloud-filestore
uv add google-cloud-filestore
poetry add google-cloud-filestore

## Installing google-cloud-filestore

Before you install: Low install friction with a pure-Python wheel distribution. Active maintenance with a release 8 days ago; the underlying repository shows recent activity and is not archived.

License in practice: Apache-2.0 permissive license allows commercial and private use with minimal restrictions.

Quickstart:

pip install google-cloud-filestore

from google.cloud import filestore_v1

client = filestore_v1.CloudFilestoreManagerClient()

Requires Python >= 3.10; requires Google Cloud project setup, billing enabled, and Cloud Filestore API enabled; requires authentication credentials (service account key or application default credentials).

Verify before relying:

- Whether the package requires active Google Cloud authentication credentials at runtime beyond what the documentation describes.
- Whether there are any quota or rate-limiting behaviors specific to the Filestore API that users should be aware of.

## Package facts

- License: Apache-2.0 (permissive)
- Python support: supports_current
- Install friction: low
- Maintenance: active
- Downloads: 308.1K/month (top 15,000 on PyPI)
- Known vulnerabilities: none known

## Tags

google cloud filestore client, cloud file server management, google filestore api python, managed nfs filestore, cloud storage provisioning, google cloud file instances, google-cloud, infrastructure-as-code

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