minio/docs/gateway/azure.md

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Minio Azure Gateway Slack

Minio Gateway adds Amazon S3 compatibility to Microsoft Azure Blob Storage.

Run Minio Gateway for Microsoft Azure Blob Storage

Using Docker

docker run -p 9000:9000 --name azure-s3 \
 -e "MINIO_ACCESS_KEY=azurestorageaccountname" \
 -e "MINIO_SECRET_KEY=azurestorageaccountkey" \
 minio/minio gateway azure

Using Binary

export MINIO_ACCESS_KEY=azureaccountname
export MINIO_SECRET_KEY=azureaccountkey
minio gateway azure

Test using Minio Browser

Minio Gateway comes with an embedded web based object browser. Point your web browser to http://127.0.0.1:9000 ensure your server has started successfully.

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Test using Minio Client mc

mc provides a modern alternative to UNIX commands such as ls, cat, cp, mirror, diff etc. It supports filesystems and Amazon S3 compatible cloud storage services.

Configure mc

mc config host add myazure http://gateway-ip:9000 azureaccountname azureaccountkey

List containers on Microsoft Azure

mc ls myazure
[2017-02-22 01:50:43 PST]     0B ferenginar/
[2017-02-26 21:43:51 PST]     0B my-container/
[2017-02-26 22:10:11 PST]     0B test-container1/

Known limitations

Gateway inherits the following Azure limitations:

  • Only read-only bucket policy supported at bucket level, all other variations will return API Notimplemented error.
  • Bucket names with "." in the bucket name are not supported.
  • Non-empty buckets get removed on a DeleteBucket() call.
  • List Multipart Uploads and List Object parts always returns empty list. i.e Client will need to remember all the parts that it has uploaded and use it for Complete Multipart Upload

Other limitations:

  • Bucket notification APIs are not supported.

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