- Login to the Azure Portal:
- https://portal.azure.com/
- From the upper search field, write “Storage accounts”
- From the main pane, click on the target storage account name -> from the main pane, click on Access keys -> write the following details on a temporary location for future use:
- Storage account name
- Key 1 -> Key
Blob Fuse installation
- Login using SSH to the target Linux machine using privileged account.
- Follow the instructions below to install the Blobfuse:
- https://github.com/Azure/azure-storage-fuse/wiki/1.-Installation
- Run the command sudo vi /opt/connection.cfg to create config file with the following content:
- accountName <account-name>
- accountKey <account-key-name >
- containerName <container-name>
- Note 1: Replace <account-name> with the value of the storage account name from the Azure portal
- Note 2: Replace <account-key-name> with the value of the “key” from the Azure portal
- Note 3: Replace <container-name> with the target Azure blob storage container name
- Change the permissions of the connection.cfg file
- sudo chown MyUser:MyUser /opt/connection.cfg
- sudo chmod 600 /opt/connection.cfg
- Note: Replace MyUser with the username you have logged into the Linux machine
Mount phase
- Run the commands below to mount the Azure blob storage:
- sudo mkdir -p /dev/cloudstorage
- sudo mkdir -p /dev/cloudstoragetmp
- sudo chown -R MyUser:MyUser /dev/cloudstorage/
- sudo chown -R MyUser:MyUser /dev/cloudstoragetmp/
- blobfuse /dev/cloudstorage --tmp-path=/dev/cloudstoragetmp --config-file=/opt/connection.cfg
- Note: Replace MyUser with the username you have logged into the Linux machine
- To view the content of the Google cloud storage bucket, switch to the new mount point:
- cd /dev/cloudstorage
Unmount phase
- When completing the work on the bucket, from the Linux SSH console, and run the commands below to unmount the Google Cloud Storage:
- cd ~
- fusermount -u /dev/cloudstorage
Additional references regarding permanent mount using FSTAB
- https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/uk_faculty_connection/2019/02/20/blobfuse-is-an-open-source-project-developed-to-provide-a-virtual-filesystem-backed-by-the-azure-blob-storage/
- https://github.com/Azure/azure-storage-fuse/wiki/1.-Installation
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/blobs/storage-how-to-mount-container-linux