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Mounting Azure Containers

Introduction

In our Mounting External Files article, we show you how to create a mount and assign it to your users. This is a supplementary article that shows you how to configure the mount to set it up pointing to an Azure Container.

The Folder Tab

When configuring an Azure Container, the folder tab will contain the Container Path field. Enter the name of the container you have created in the Azure portal. If the container has sub folders, you can optionally include the folder path if you want to serve a sub folder as the root of the mount.

Credentials

Enter the Windows credentials that will be used to access the container. This will require the Storage Account name and Key valid for authentication.

Further Help

The following documentation is useful if you need to setup the Storage Account and Container from scratch.

Creating a Storage Account

Creating the Container

Obtaining the Key for Authentication

Log into the Azure Portal and navigate to the Storage Account configuration

This will show a list of storage accounts

Click on the Storage Account you need to use. This will open a page with many options and a menu down the left-hand side. In this menu locate and click on the Access Keys option.

The account should already be configured with some keys.

To view the keys you must click on the Show Keys option at the top of the page.

This will now show the plain text of the key. Select the text from the Key field, and paste this into the Key field of the Credentials tab when configuring the mount.