# Install gcsfuse with Homebrew, Nix User-space file system for interacting with Google Cloud. Version 3.10.0 via Homebrew; verified 2026-06-19. ## Install ```sh sudo av install brew:gcsfuse ``` Additional install commands: ### macOS - Homebrew (100%): ```sh brew install gcsfuse ``` Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata ### Linux - Nix (92%): ```sh nix profile install nixpkgs#gcsfuse ``` Evidence: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/gc/gcsfuse/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1 ## Package facts - **Package key:** brew:gcsfuse - **Package manager:** Homebrew - **Package manager page:** - **Version:** 3.10.0 - **Source summary:** User-space file system for interacting with Google Cloud - **Homepage:** - **Repository:** - **Upstream docs:** - **License:** Apache-2.0 - **Source archive:** - **Last updated:** 2026-06-19T10:47:08Z - **Generated:** 2026-07-08T07:18:31+00:00 ## Executables - gcsfuse (cli) - mount.fuse.gcsfuse (cli) - mount.gcsfuse (cli) - gcsfuse (alias) - mount.fuse.gcsfuse (alias) - mount.gcsfuse (alias) ## Dependencies - libfuse ## Build dependencies - go ## Install behavior - Post-install hook: not defined - Bottle: available on arm64_linux, x86_64_linux ## Freshness - Page generated: 2026-07-08 - Package-manager version: 3.10.0 - Package-manager updated: 2026-06-19 - Local data: ok - Upstream repository: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/gcsfuse - Upstream latest detected: v3.10.0 (current) ## Project history and usage Cloud Storage FUSE, packaged as gcsfuse, is Google's open source FUSE adapter for mounting Cloud Storage buckets as local file systems. Its package history sits between cloud storage, Unix filesystem conventions, and Kubernetes/GKE integration. ### Project history The GitHub repository was created in February 2015 and describes the project as a user-space filesystem for Google Cloud Storage. Google tied v1.0.0 to General Availability in June 2023 and moved documentation into Google Cloud documentation pages at that time. ### Adoption history Cloud Storage FUSE adoption expanded from a general bucket-mounting CLI into Google Cloud workload infrastructure. The README emphasizes validated machine-learning use cases, local file caching, parallel downloads, streaming writes, and a Kubernetes CSI driver that lets GKE manage deployment and bucket mounts. ### How it is used Users mount a Cloud Storage bucket into a local filesystem namespace, then read and write objects through filesystem calls. The modern documentation and README emphasize that the behavior differs from a POSIX filesystem, so users need the Cloud Storage FUSE semantics and limits when designing applications. ### Why package nerds care gcsfuse is significant because it packages cloud object storage as a Unix mount point. That makes it a classic infrastructure adapter: deceptively familiar at the CLI level, but backed by remote object-store semantics, authentication, caching, and workload-specific performance tuning. ### Timeline - 2015: GitHub records the gcsfuse repository creation. - 2023: v1.0.0 is published with General Availability and Google Cloud documentation migration. - 2024: v2.0.0 introduces local file caching and related configuration changes. - 2026: v3 releases continue with streaming writes, parallel downloads, and high-performance machine optimizations. ### Related projects - Google Cloud Storage is the backing object-storage service. - FUSE is the user-space filesystem interface used by the package. - The Cloud Storage FUSE CSI driver uses gcsfuse to mount buckets for GKE workloads. - Google Cloud SDK application-default credentials are a related authentication surface. ### Sources - - - - - - - ## Security Notes infrastructure mutation or orchestration signal. - **Geiger risk:** orange / medium - infrastructure mutation or orchestration signal ## Configuration and credential file locations These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval. ## Credential files - Unix: ~/.config/gcloud/application_default_credentials.json - Windows: %APPDATA%\gcloud\application_default_credentials.json ## Source Database Details - **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API - **Tap:** homebrew/core - **Full Name:** gcsfuse - **Version Scheme:** 0 - **Revision:** 0 - **Head Version:** HEAD - **Requirements:** linux - **Bottle Stable Root URL:** - **Deprecated:** no - **Disabled:** no - **Keg Only:** no - **URL Keys:** head, stable ## Other Package-Manager Records - Nix - gcsfuse: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/gc/gcsfuse/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1 ## Related links - [Cloud CLI packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/cloud-clis/) - Belongs to a cloud or infrastructure command family. - [Source-control packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/source-control-tools/) - Belongs to a source-control command family. - [Secret-risk packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/secret-risk-packages/) - Has protected-tool coverage, approval-gate, or non-low Geiger security signals. - [Terminal utility packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/terminal-utilities/) - Matched terminal and command-line workflow metadata. - [libfuse](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/libfuse/) - Runtime dependency declared by Homebrew. - [go](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/go/) - Build dependency declared by Homebrew. - [juicefs](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/juicefs/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, cloud-infrastructure, cloud-storage, filesystem, storage. - [s3fs](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/s3fs/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, cloud-infrastructure, filesystem, fuse, object-storage. - [s3ql](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/s3ql/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, cloud-infrastructure, filesystem, fuse, object-storage. - [geesefs](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/geesefs/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, cloud-infrastructure, cloud-storage, filesystem, fuse. - [s5cmd](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/s5cmd/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, cloud-infrastructure, cloud-storage, filesystem, storage. - [storj-uplink](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/storj-uplink/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, cloud-infrastructure, cloud-storage, object-storage, storage. - [versitygw](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/versitygw/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, cloud-infrastructure, filesystem, object-storage, storage. - [filen-cli](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/filen-cli/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, cloud-infrastructure, cloud-storage, storage. ## Combined YAML source View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/gcsfuse.yml](https://github.com/automic-vault/db/blob/main/combined/gcsfuse.yml) ## Sources - Nucleus package database - Geiger risk classifier - package-page enrichment - curated configuration and credential file locations - curated package history - package version freshness - av.db category and tag curation - package relationship graph - external package-manager database matches - cross-ecosystem install command graph