Google Cloud storage
You can configure ImageKit.io to fetch images from your Google Cloud bucket. This allows you to start leveraging ImageKit.io real-time image resizing, optimization, and fast CDN delivery for thousands or millions of existing images within minutes.
Note: We do not start copying images from your bucket as soon as you add it. Instead, we will fetch the particular image when you request it through ImageKit.io URL-endpoint. Learn more to understand how this works. The images accessed from this origin will not appear in your Media library.
Go to the external storage section in your ImageKit.io dashboard, and under the Origins section, click on the "Add origin" button.
Choose Web server from the origin type dropdown.
Give your origin a name. It will appear in the list of origins you have added. For example - My Google storage bucket.
Enter
https://storage.googleapis.comin the base URL field.Leave the advanced options as it is for now.
Click on the Submit button.
Public read access required The integration with Google Cloud storage works like web server integration. It requires making all objects in a bucket publicly readable. It is recommended to use roles/storage.legacyObjectReader instead of roles/storage.objectViewer so that no one can list the objects in your bucket.
When you add your first origin in the dashboard, the origin is by default made accessible through the default URL-endpoint of your ImageKit.io account. For subsequent origins, you can either create a separate URL-endpoint or edit existing URL-endpoint (including default) and make this newly added origin accessible by editing the origin preference list.
Let's look at a few examples to fetch the images:
Original image through Azure blog storage (old URL) https://storage.googleapis.com/rest-of-the-path.jpg
The same master image using ImageKit.io URL-endpoint https://ik.imagekit.io/your_imagekit_id/rest-of-the-path.jpg
Resized 300x300 image https://ik.imagekit.io/your_imagekit_id/
tr:w-300,h-300/rest-of-the-path.jpg
So when you request https://ik.imagekit.io/your_imagekit_id/rest-of-the-path.jpg, ImageKit.io internally fetches the file fromhttps://storage.googleapis.com/rest-of-the-path.jpg.
URL-endpoint transformation image path┌─────────────────────────────────────┐┌─────────────┐┌───────────────────┐https://ik.imagekit.io/your_imagekit_id/tr:w-300,h-300/rest-of-the-path.jpg
🧙♂Tips: You can also use a custom domain like images.example.com.
Now start using ImageKit.io URL endpoint in your application to accelerate image loading.
Quickly get started with our SDKs:
Learn about real-time image resizing:
