Microsoft Azure Blob storage

Microsoft Azure Blob storage is a cloud object storage solution optimized for storing massive amounts of unstructured data for cloud-native workloads, archives, data lakes, high-performance computing, and machine learning. This document describes how to connect IBM watsonx Orchestrate to Microsoft Azure Blob storage and use its skills on watsonx Orchestrate.

Connecting to Microsoft Azure Blob storage

Connect to the app according to the credential type that you or your team want to use.

If you want to connect the app to the Orchestrate Agent skill set, skill sets from AI assistants, or the Team skill set with Team credentials, refer to Managing app connections.

If you want to connect to the app to the Personal skill set or the Team skill set with Member credentials, refer to Connecting to apps.

Configuring the connection

To connect watsonx Orchestrate to Microsoft Azure Blob storage, complete the following steps:

  1. Click Connect app.

  2. Specify the following connection details.

    • Storage account name: Your Microsoft Azure Blob storage account name. For more information, see Storage account overview on the Microsoft documentation page.

    • Tenant ID: The unique directory (tenant) ID of the Microsoft Azure Active Directory instance. To get your tenant ID, see Retrieving the Tenant ID.

    • Client ID: The application (client) ID of your application registered through the app registrations in the Azure portal. For more information on getting Client ID, see Retrieving the Client ID.

    • Client secret: The client secret of your application generated through the App registrations in the Azure portal. For more information on getting your Client secret, see Retrieving the Client secret.

  3. Click Connect app.

Note: The icon A green check icon appears to show that the app is connected. indicates that the connection was successfully established.

Retrieving the Tenant ID

To get your Tenant ID:

  1. Sign in to the Azure portal and go to your storage account.
  2. Go to Microsoft Azure Active Directory.
  3. Click Properties on the side panel. Then, scroll down to the Tenant ID field.
  4. Click Copy icon to copy the tenant ID.

Retrieving the Client ID

To get your Client ID:

  1. Sign in to the Azure portal and go to your storage account.
  2. Go to Microsoft Azure Active Directory.
  3. From App registrations, select your application. You can find your Application (Client) ID under the Essentials.
  4. Click Copy icon to copy the Client ID of your application.

Retrieving the Client secret

To get your Client secret:

  1. Sign in to the Azure portal and go to your storage account.
  2. Go to Microsoft Azure Active Directory.
  3. From App registrations, select your application.
  4. Click Certificates & secrets on the side panel.
  5. Click Client secrets tab.
  6. Click Copy icon to copy the existing Client secret or click New client secret to create a new Client secret.

What to do next

After you connect to the app, you can use the Microsoft Azure Blob storage skills. For more information see, Using the chat.

To learn about the available skills, see List of prebuilt apps, skills and skill flows.

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