GCP Storage Integration

Offload your media inputs and results to Google Cloud Buckets

Introduction

Davinci AI’s allows you to integrate cloud storages to store results of various media related features of the script. This allows you to make sure that you always have sufficent storage space for your customers. Using cloud storage option also minimizes the latency for your user to access their media results as data could be avaiable via CDN framework of the cloud vendors.

Connect GCP Account

To be able to use your GCP Bucket, follow these steps to setup integration.

1. Step 1

   Go to the Google Cloud Platform page, and get yourself registered in case if you don’t have an account already.

2. Step 2

   Once you are logged into your GCP account, click on the New Project button on the top left corner, and provide project name as you prefer.

   
3. Step 3

   Next, search for storage keyword and select Cloud Storage from the list.

   
4. Step 4

   Within the Storage service click on Create Bucket

   
5. Step 5

   Specify bucket name as needed and click Create Bucket. Provide unique bucket name. (it must be globally unique, hence you might want to add random digits/letters if needed)

   
6. Step 6

   For the next step select Region

   
7. Step 7

   For the next step select Standard, or if you are familar with GCP storage types you can select alternate options as well as needed

   
8. Step 8

   Set versioning and encryption as needed or leave it with default values.

   
9. Step 9

   Select Fine Grained for access control.

   
10. Step 10

    Now when your bucket is successfully created you need to provide access to that. For that we need to create a Role. Go to IAM & Admin and select Roles

    
11. Step 11

    Click on Create Role

    
12. Step 12

    Provide a Role Title to be able to identify it later.

    
13. Step 13

    Click on Add Permissions.

    
14. Step 14

    Search by keyword storage and select storage.bucket.list.

    
15. Step 15

    Also select following object level permissions as well as shown in the image.

    
16. Step 16

    Final result should look like in the image and click Create.

    
17. Step 17

    Now you need to create Create Service Credentials. Go to API & Credentials and click on Create Credentials

    
18. Step 18

    Click on + Create Credentials and select Service account from the list.

    
19. Step 19

    1 - Provide Service account name and Service account description (optional).

    
20. Step 20

    2 - Click on Select a Role and find your role that you created previously to access GCP Storage Bucket.

    
21. Step 21

    3 - You can leave this step with defaults unless you want to add addtional user(s) and click Done.

    
22. Step 22

    Select your newly created Service Account, under Actions tab select Manage Keys.

    
23. Step 23

    Under Keys tab, select Add Key -> Create new key.

    
24. Step 24

    Select JSON as key type. Click Create, it will store in on your desktop.

    
25. Step 25

    Now, Login to Davinci AI using your admin credentials.

26. Step 26

    In Admin Panel, navigate to AI Settings -> AI API Keys tab.

27. Step 27

    Click on Google tab there.

    
28. Step 28

    Include the path for the json file and your GCP bucket name. JSON file must be stored outside of your Public folder. Show full path for the JSON file including JSON filename based on your hosting file structure. Here is an example for cPanel: ‘/home/username/public_html/gcpjsonfilename.json’. Click save button afterwards.

    

Congratulations! You have successfully comleted the Google Cloud Bucket setup process.

Davinci AI Tools which supports storing results in GCP Bucket

Following AI tools can be store results in Google Cloud Storage

1. AI Voiceover
2. AI Images
3. AI Speech to Text

Via AI Settings page in Admin Panel, you can set default cloud storage vendor for each of the supported AI tools individually