So as i discovered Google CDN + Google http Load balancer works different from other CDN.
with a regular CDN you can direct the origin to you bucket HTTP address and work on the / structure.
for example :
Google CDN Bucket URL:
googleapi.storage.com/my-bucket
Folder structure:
/1/1.jpg
Normal CDN origin will be pointing to googleapi.storage.com/my-bucket
and you will get a new service endpoint for the CDN like:
my-bucket.fastly.cdonservice.com
and this call will work:
my-bucket.fastly.cdonservice.com/1/1.jpg
but on google cloud what you are setting up is a path that is connected to the CDN service that you created on the backend part.
So this is the big difference, lets assume that you created this path rule.
host: www.googlecdnnonexplainedfeautres.com
path: /images/*
service: yourbackendservice (connected to the bucket you want to cache)
so you might assume this should work:
www.googlecdnnonexplainedfeautres.com/images/1/1.jpg.
but NO ..
after digging the logs you will find a 404 on the bucket because google will go and search this path on the bucket:
googleapi.storage.com/my-bucket/images/1/1.jpg.
wait , where did the images came ? i thought its a hook. no google take this as a static website root ( the thing you can check on and off on S3) so here its mandatory.
so how this should work ?
modify the folder structure to be like this :
Google CDN Bucket URL:
googleapi.storage.com/my-bucket
Folder structure:
images/1/1.jpg
and now you are good.
This link should work now :
www.googlecdnnonexplainedfeautres.com/images/1/1.jpg.
so before you commit a bucket to be used as CDN source for google just add another top folder that match with the path you set on the LB.
and of course .. permissions , allUsers , read and etc..
EnjoY!