FTP to Azure Blob Storage

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techV picture techV · Oct 12, 2016 · Viewed 41.6k times · Source

I had to setup secure FTP to Azure Blob Storage using popular FTP clients (like FileZilla, for example). After doing lot of research, I came across a link that says:

Deployed in a worker role, the code creates an FTP server that can accept connections from all popular FTP clients (like FileZilla, for example) for command and control of your blob storage account.

Following the instructions of the link, I had implemented the same and deployed the worker role on Azure production environment and it was successful. But still I am not able to connect the FTP host server (provided by me in configuration file) using FileZilla. I don't know what I had done wrong or missed anything.

Answer

Compulim picture Compulim · Dec 4, 2016

If you are okay with a little programming with Node.js, you can host a FTP server directly backed by Azure Blob.

You can use nodeftpd combined with azure-storage-fs. nodeftpd is the FTP server written in Node.js and support third-party file system manager. azure-storage-fs is a file system manager that is designed to use for nodeftpd and talks to Azure Blob directly.

The file system manager integration code is clearly written under README.md of azure-storage-fs. But you will need to write your own authentication code.

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