Mount a Blob Storage as Drive on VM

Ron picture Ron · Nov 18, 2014 · Viewed 32k times · Source

I need to somehow uploads files and access them on the VM, how can I do this?

Specifically, how can I get access to files I've uploaded as a blob from within the VM?

I tried to access a file that I've uploaded as a blob onto an Azure Virtual Machine, but I couldn't find it anywhere on VM.

Can I simply mount a blob storage as a drive on my VM?

I am trying to avoid the round trip time of getting it from the actual blob storage and downloading it to the VM.

Answer

Tats_innit picture Tats_innit · Jan 5, 2019

You can now mount azure blob to Linux Vms. Please note there is a Linux FUSE adapter for Azure storage now which is called Blobfuse. This is an old question but I thought it would be helpful to add a solution for accessing \ Mounting blobs in your Linux VMs using BlobFuse official docs here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/blobs/storage-how-to-mount-container-linux