Configuration of Azure Blob storage for application access |

Following are the steps can be useful if you have any application (service) in your on premise that need to access (download/upload) files to Microsoft Azure blob storage.

Open Azure web portal Configure free tire account if not configured.

Create a blob storage resource.

Give appropriate name for Storage account, remember this should be unique in AWS infrastructure, and select storage kind as ‘Blob storage’, select ‘New’ in ‘Resource group’ section. If you have already created any resource group then select one of old one. Select ‘Pin to dashboard’ so you can access it directly from dashboard.

From the dash board, click on storage account ‘appazurestorage1’ you just created.

Create a new ‘Container’. It’s kind of folder, in AWS & Google cloud it’s called as a bucket. Keep the access level as private.

Click on ‘Access key’ tab, note down storage account name & key.

The basic configuration of blob storage is ready. You can now upload few files manually using Azure portal by click on bucket you just created.

Testing bucket access:-

Method 1 using cloud Berry
a. Download and Install Cloudberry (freeware) for Azure in your on premise server.
b. Connect to Azure blob using access key & account name.

c. Test copy (/cut) paste of file (/s) using cloud berry console.

Method 2 Using MS AzCopy command line tool.
Download and install AzCopy on server. Open command prompt, switch to AzCopy directory which is most likely “C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Azure\AzCopy“

Download all blobs (files) of a container to local disk.
Sample Syntax

AzCopy /Source:https://myaccount.blob.core.windows.net/mycontainer /Dest:C:\myfolder /SourceKey:key /S

Example.

AzCopy /Source:https://appazurestorage1.blob.core.windows.net/myappbucket /Dest:C:\temp\Azure /SourceKey:pQrvBr+rwoI9psWKx73SKcrE8M0JW+ZUQeIY05CJ+PJMGSFMpXV+U9Maygbtiwtc69+aPkabmZna6hxfhuw2NA== /S /sourceType:blob

Upload all blobs (files) in a container (bucket)
Syntax

AzCopy /Source:C:\myfolder /Dest:https://myaccount.blob.core.windows.net/mycontainer /DestKey:key /S

Example

AzCopy /Source:C:\temp\Azure\upload /Dest:https://appazurestorage1.blob.core.windows.net/myappbucket /DestKey:pQrvBr+rwoI9psWKx73SKcrE8M0JW+ZUQeIY05CJ+PJMGSFMpXV+U9Maygbtiwtc69+aPkabmZna6hxfhuw2NA== /S

More details about AzCopy tool.