# Install gcsfuse with Homebrew, Nix

User-space file system for interacting with Google Cloud. Version 3.11.2 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-24. Also installable with nix: nix profile install nixpkgs#gcsfuse.

## 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
- **Version:** 3.11.2
- **Source summary:** User-space file system for interacting with Google Cloud
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/googlecloudplatform/gcsfuse>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/gcsfuse>
- **Last updated:** 2026-07-24T12:16:12Z
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- gcsfuse (alias)
- mount.fuse.gcsfuse (alias)
- mount.gcsfuse (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 3.11.2
## 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

- <https://api.github.com/repos/GoogleCloudPlatform/gcsfuse>
- <https://api.github.com/repos/GoogleCloudPlatform/gcsfuse/releases/tags/v1.0.0>
- <https://api.github.com/repos/GoogleCloudPlatform/gcsfuse/releases/tags/v2.0.0>
- <https://docs.cloud.google.com/storage/docs/cloud-storage-fuse/cli-options>
- <https://docs.cloud.google.com/storage/docs/cloud-storage-fuse/overview>
- <https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/gcsfuse>
- <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/gcsfuse/master/README.md>


## 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
## 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


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/gcsfuse.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/gcsfuse.yml)


## Sources

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