Tag: Storing data

This time how to store your data to Azure Blog Storage 👍

Let’s start

Configuration

• Obtain the Azure login credentials

az login

1. Copy the code provided by the command.
2. Open a browser and navigate to https://microsoft.com/devicelogin.
3. Enter the code copied in a previous step and click Next.
4. Use the login credentials from the lab page to finish logging in.
5. Switch back to the terminal and wait for the confirmation.

Storage

• Find the name of the Storage account

 az storage account list | grep name | head -1

Copy the name of the Storage account to the clipboard.

• Export the Storage account name

 export AZURE_STORAGE_ACCOUNT=<COPIED_STORAGE_ACCOUNT_NAME>

• Retrieve the Storage access key

az storage account keys list --account-name=$AZURE_STORAGE_ACCOUNT

Copy the key1 “value” for later use.

• Export the key value

export AZURE_STORAGE_ACCESS_KEY=<KEY1_VALUE>

• Install blobfuse

sudo rpm -Uvh https://packages.microsoft.com/config/rhel/7/packages-microsoft-prod.rpm
sudo yum install blobfuse fuse -y

• Modify the fuse.conf configuration file

sudo sed -ri 's/# user_allow_other/user_allow_other/' /etc/fuse.conf

Use Azure Blob container Storage

• Create necessary directories

sudo mkdir -p /mnt/Osama /mnt/blobfusetmp

• Change ownership of the directories

sudo chown cloud_user /mnt/Osama/ /mnt/blobfusetmp/

• Mount the Blob Storage from Azure

blobfuse /mnt/Osama --container-name=website --tmp-path=/mnt/blobfusetmp -o allow_other

• Copy What you want to the files into the Blob Storage container for example website files.

 cp -r ~/web/* /mnt/Osama/

• Verify the copy worked

ll /mnt/Osama/

• Verify the files made it to Azure Blob Storage

az storage blob list -c website --output table

• Finally, Run a Docker container using the azure blob storage

docker run -d --name web1 -p 80:80 --mount type=bind,source=/mnt/Osama,target=/usr/local/apache2/htdocs,readonly httpd:2.4

Enjoy 🎉😁

Osama