How to use IBM® App Connect with Microsoft Azure Blob Storage

Microsoft Azure Blob Storage is a Cloud Object Storage solution. Azure Blob (Binary Large Object) is a secure object storage solution that is optimized for storing massive amounts of unstructured data for cloud-native workloads, archives, data lakes, high-performance computing, and machine learning.

Supported product and API versions

To find out which product and API versions this connector supports, see Detailed System Requirements on the IBM Support page.

Connecting to Microsoft Azure Blob Storage

Complete the connection fields that you see in the App Connect Designer Connect > Applications and APIs page (previously the Catalog page) or flow editor. If necessary, work with your Microsoft Azure Blob Storage administrator to obtain these values.

Microsoft Azure Blob Storage authorization types and connection fields: connection fields:

BASIC: Storage account name: Specify your Microsoft Azure Blob Storage account name; Tenant ID: Specify the identifier of your Microsoft Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) tenant; Client ID: Specify the application (client) ID value of your application that is registered in the Microsoft Azure app registration portal; Client secret: Specify the client secret of your application that is generated through the App registrations in the Azure portal

BASIC OAUTH: Storage account name: Specify your Microsoft Azure Blob Storage account name; Tenant ID: Specify the identifier of your Microsoft Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) tenant; Client ID: Specify the application (client) ID value of your application that is registered in the Microsoft Azure app registration portal; Client secret: Specify the client secret of your application that is generated through the App registrations in the Azure portal; Access token: An access token generated from the application client ID, client secret, and other parameters; Refresh token: A refresh token generated from the application client ID, client secret, and other parameters

API KEY: Storage account name: Specify your Microsoft Azure Blob Storage account name; Storage account key: Specify the access key that is used to authorize access to the data in your storage account using Shared Key authorization. Azure generates two 512-bit storage account access keys when creating a storage account.

OAUTH 2.0 AUTH CODE: Storage account name: Specify your Microsoft Azure Blob Storage account name

To obtain the connection values for Microsoft Azure Blob Storage, see Obtaining connection values for Microsoft Azure Blob Storage.

To connect to a Microsoft Azure Blob Storage endpoint from the App Connect Designer Applications and APIs page for the first time, expand Microsoft Azure Blob Storage, then click Connect. For more information, see Managing accounts.

Tip:

Before you use the account that is created in App Connect in a flow, rename the account to something meaningful that helps you to identify it. To rename the account on the Applications and APIs page, select the account, open its options menu (⋮), then click Rename Account.

General considerations

Before you use App Connect Designer with Microsoft Azure Blob Storage, take note of the following considerations:

(General consideration) You can see lists of the trigger events and actions that are available on the Applications and APIs page of the App Connect Designer.
For some applications, the events and actions depend on the environment and whether the connector supports configurable events and dynamic discovery of actions. If the application supports configurable events, you see a Show more configurable events link under the events list. If the application supports dynamic discovery of actions, you see a Show more link under the actions list.
(General consideration) If you are using multiple accounts for an application, the set of fields that is displayed when you select an action for that application can vary for different accounts. In the flow editor, some applications always provide a curated set of static fields for an action. Other applications use dynamic discovery to retrieve the set of fields that are configured on the instance that you are connected to. For example, if you have two accounts for two instances of an application, the first account might use settings that are ready for immediate use. However, the second account might be configured with extra custom fields.

Events and actions

Microsoft Azure Blob Storage events

These events are for changes in this application that trigger a flow to start completing the actions in the flow.

Note: Events are not available for changes in this application. You can trigger a flow in other ways, such as at a scheduled interval or at specific dates and times.

Microsoft Azure Blob Storage actions

Your flow completes these actions on this application.

Append blobs

Update or create append blob
Append block

Blob services

Set blob service properties
Get blob service properties

Blobs

Retrieve blobs
Update or create blob
Delete blob
Copy blob
Set blob metadata
Check blob exists
Download blob content
Abort copy blob

Containers

Create container
Retrieve containers
Delete container
Set container metadata
Check container exists
Set container ACL
Get container ACL

Page blobs

Update or create page blob
Add page

Snapshots

Create blob snapshot
Retrieve blob snapshots
Delete blob snapshot

Versions

Retrieve blob versions
Delete blob version

Examples

Dashboard tile for a template that uses Microsoft Azure Blob Storage

Use templates to quickly create flows for Microsoft Azure Blob Storage

Learn how to use App Connect templates to quickly create flows that complete actions on Microsoft Azure Blob Storage. For example, open the Templates gallery, and then search for Microsoft Azure Blob Storage.

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