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  • Add Authentication section covering the google_service_credentials,
    GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS, GOOGLE_SERVICE_CREDENTIALS, and
    metadata server precedence chain
  • Document the new format, metadata_server, unify_tag, and
    unify_tag_name options
  • Expand compression to cover the parquet page codecs and note that
    values aren't case-sensitive
  • Correct the content_type default for parquet uploads
  • Correct the google_service_credentials default to none
  • Add Parquet format and Unified tag buffering sections, including the
    effect of unify_tag on $TAG in gcs_key_format

Signed-off-by: Eric D. Schabell eric@schabell.org

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  • Documentation
    • Added authentication guidance, including credential lookup order and metadata-server behavior.
    • Documented Parquet output, page-level compression options, and examples.
    • Added configuration references for output format, metadata server access, tag unification, and buffering.
    • Clarified that compression and content-type defaults vary by output format.
    • Documented Parquet build-time failure handling.
    • Clarified that unified tag names are logical buffer metadata used for key formatting, not local file names.
    • Updated the documented default for Google service credentials.

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The GCS output documentation adds authentication rules, Parquet output support, format-dependent compression and content types, metadata-server settings, and unified-tag buffering options.

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GCS output documentation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Authentication options
pipeline/outputs/gcs.md
Documents credential precedence, legacy environment variables, metadata-server authentication, and invalid credential-file errors.
Format and Parquet output
pipeline/outputs/gcs.md
Documents format and metadata-server settings, format-dependent compression and content types, Parquet requirements, and a Snappy configuration example.
Unified tag buffering
pipeline/outputs/gcs.md
Documents unified-tag settings, internal buffer filenames, and $TAG and $TAG[n] behavior in GCS key formatting.

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The documentation currently implies that every deployment needs a JSON key, including metadata-server authentication where an attached service account is sufficient. This could encourage unnecessary private-key handling; the risk is bounded and the PR is otherwise mergeable with a small follow-up.

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- Line 81: Update the Snappy entry in the compression configuration table to
describe it as a commonly used codec and explicitly state that Fluent Bit
defaults to none, replacing the wording that implies Snappy is the default.
- Line 57: Update the unify_tag_name description in the GCS output documentation
to identify it as the logical tag stored as buffer metadata and used for key
formatting, not as the local buffer file name. Remove or replace the file-naming
implication while preserving the existing unify_tag behavior and example where
applicable.
- Line 35: Remove the claim that an invalid or unreadable credentials path falls
back to metadata-server authentication, and update the documentation to state
that credential-file parsing failure stops GCS output initialization; do not
describe a successful credentials-file load log unless it is emitted by the
initialization path.

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… metadata server auth

  - Add Authentication section covering the google_service_credentials,
    GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS, GOOGLE_SERVICE_CREDENTIALS, and
    metadata server precedence chain
  - Document the new format, metadata_server, unify_tag, and
    unify_tag_name options
  - Expand compression to cover the parquet page codecs and note that
    values aren't case-sensitive
  - Correct the content_type default for parquet uploads
  - Correct the google_service_credentials default to none
  - Add Parquet format and Unified tag buffering sections, including the
    effect of unify_tag on $TAG in gcs_key_format
  - Replace "Industry standard default" in the Parquet compression table
    with wording that notes Snappy is commonly used but that Fluent Bit
    defaults compression to none
  - Add the namespace configuration parameter to the options table
  - Add a Journal namespaces section covering namespace-only reads,
    mutual exclusivity with path, the libsystemd 245 build requirement,
    and the need for a separate db file per namespace
  - Add YAML and classic configuration examples
  - Describe unify_tag_name as the logical tag stored as buffer chunk
    metadata and used for $TAG in gcs_key_format
  - Remove the implication that it names the local buffer file, which is
    generated internally from a timestamp hash
  - Apply the same correction to the Unified tag buffering section
  - Make the service account JSON key step conditional on using a credentials file
  - State that metadata server authentication requires no JSON key, since it uses
    the service account attached to the Compute Engine instance or GKE node

Signed-off-by: Eric D. Schabell <eric@schabell.org>
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