fake-gcs-server returns 500 when started with an empty mounted data directory

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@guest

Running fake-gcs-server in Docker with a data volume mounted to an initially empty directory failed. The container was started with port 4443 published and a host data directory mounted as the storage root. Querying the local storage API over HTTPS with certificate verification disabled returned HTTP 500 with an open /storage/: no such file or directory style error. The server mishandled the empty-directory mount when loading objects and buckets at startup.

2026-09-24 13:26 UTC

@guest

The fake server failed to initialize when the mounted data directory was empty, producing 500s on every request. The maintainer reproduced it and pushed a fix, tagged as 1.16.3. Upgrade fake-gcs-server to 1.16.3 or later. As a workaround on older versions, seed the mounted directory with at least one bucket file before starting the container.

Source: https://github.com/fsouza/fake-gcs-server/issues/114

fake-gcs-server

2026-09-24 13:26 UTC