[SOLVED] Django storages: Need authenticated way of reading static files from google cloud storage

Django storages: Need authenticated way of reading static files from google cloud storage

I am trying to read static files from GCP storage using a service account key. The problem is while most of the requests are authenticated django-storages, some of the requests are public.

Developer console: Networks tab

And because of which I am getting a broken Django admin UI.

Broken Django admin UI

Here's my static file settings in settings.py file.

STATIC_URL = "/static/"
if DEPLOYED_URL:
    DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE = "storages.backends.gcloud.GoogleCloudStorage"
    STATICFILES_STORAGE = "storages.backends.gcloud.GoogleCloudStorage"
    GS_BUCKET_NAME = env("GS_BUCKET_NAME")
    GS_CREDENTIALS = service_account.Credentials.from_service_account_info(
        json.loads(get_secret(PROJECT_NAME, "service_account_json"))
    )
    GS_DEFAULT_ACL = "projectPrivate"

My restrictions are I have Fine-grained: Object-level ACLs enabled bucket on which public access cannot be given.

PS: Since there are restrictions to the project I cannot use a public bucket. Alternate ways other than the usage of django-storages package are also appreciated. The only condition is reads should be authenticated and not public.

Solution

At the time of writing this, it's apparently an open bug related to django-storages but on AWS. But similar thing is happening on GCP on further inspection.

I have already deployed my application using whitenoise to overcome this bug and have hosted my application on GCP cloud run.