How to upload a folder to Blob Storage?

Question

I have a worker role that I use to pull data down from Blob Storage OnStart. Currently I'm testing this by uploading a test.txt file and then downloading it to a local directory. This is working fine.

I now would like to upload a folder to blob storage. This folder contains a batch script as well as several executables that the batch script calls.

What is the recommended way to accomplish this? I think zipping the folder and uploading the *.zip file would be easy... but then, once I download it locally for the worker role to handle, how would I unzip it without any third party libraries?

If there are better options, I'm open to any suggestions. Thanks for the help here - this community has been a huge help for me as I ramp up :)

Answer 1

You can use upload-batch:

az storage blob upload-batch --destination ContainerName --account-name YourAccountName --destination-path DirectoryInBlob --source /path/to/your/data

This copies all files found in the source directory to the target directory in the blob storage.

Either a SAS-Token (via --sas-token) or account key has to be specified.

Also works smoothly with a service principal.

Answer 2

login to azure cli using az login

1. To upload file use az storage blob upload additional-params

2. To upload a folder use az storage blob upload-batch additional-params

Refer here for complete commands