install

Additional install commands

macOS

Homebrewverified · 100%

brew install gcsfuse

local Homebrew formula metadata

Linux

Nixverified · 92%

nix profile install nixpkgs#gcsfuse

nixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/gc/gcsfuse/package.nix · source: api.github.com

overview

Package summary

User-space file system for interacting with Google Cloud

Project links

Commands and aliases

gcsfuse
mount.fuse.gcsfuse
mount.gcsfuse

history

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 posture

Risk level: orange

infrastructure mutation or orchestration signal.

Risk classifier

orange risk · medium confidence · infrastructure

Why

infrastructure mutation or orchestration signal

Signals

text:cloud

Install behavior

No Homebrew bottle metadata was recorded.

Recommended review

Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.

local files

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

Credential-bearing paths to review before unattended agent runs.

Unix: ~/.config/gcloud/application_default_credentials.json
Windows: %APPDATA%\gcloud\application_default_credentials.json

executables

Installed executables

Command	Kind	Exposure	Note
`gcsfuse`	executable	indexed executable	Discovered from the local executable index.
`mount.fuse.gcsfuse`	executable	indexed executable	Discovered from the local executable index.
`mount.gcsfuse`	executable	indexed executable	Discovered from the local executable index.

freshness

Version and freshness

These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.

page generated2026-08-03

manager version3.11.2

manager updated2026-07-24

local dataunknown

upstreamnot available

latest detectednot detected

okNo freshness warnings were generated.

install metadata

Package metadata

Package key	brew:gcsfuse
Version	3.11.2
Package manager	Homebrew
Homepage	https://github.com/googlecloudplatform/gcsfuse
Repository	https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/gcsfuse
Last updated	2026-07-24T12:16:12Z
Pulse	updated
Bottle	not recorded
Service	none declared

source database matches

Other package-manager records

Matches are pulled from external package-manager indexes and kept separate from local Automic Vault package links.

Nix95%

gcsfuse

nix profile install nixpkgs#gcsfuse

normalized package name match
Matched by: Gcsfuse

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package graph

Links come from deterministic package relationships, av.db category and tag curation, ecosystem matches, and package hub membership.

source trail

Generated from repository data

This page is generated by av-web from the private package SQLite artifact built by scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.

Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub.

combined/gcsfuse.yml

Used sources

Geiger risk classifier
cross-ecosystem install command graph
curated configuration and credential file locations
curated package history
external package-manager database matches
pkg.so package database
pkgdb category and tag curation

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