Mount a Blob Storage as Drive on VM

Question

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 1

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

• Blobfuse is stable, and is supported by Azure Storage given that it is used within its limits documented here: https://github.com/Azure/azure-storage-fuse

• Installation document here: https://github.com/Azure/azure-storage-fuse/wiki/1.-Installation

• Simply use whatever linux distro package installer with to get the blobfuse, please refer to the installation link above: like in Ubuntu its simply: sudo apt-get install blobfuse fuse