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MinIO Azure Gateway 
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_ROOT_USER=azurestorageaccountname" \
-e "MINIO_ROOT_PASSWORD=azurestorageaccountkey" \
minio/minio gateway azure
Using Binary
export MINIO_ROOT_USER=azureaccountname
export MINIO_ROOT_PASSWORD=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 to ensure that your server has started successfully.
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 alias set 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/
Use custom access/secret keys
If you do not want to share the credentials of the Azure blob storage with your users/applications, you can set the original credentials in the shell environment using AZURE_STORAGE_ACCOUNT and AZURE_STORAGE_KEY variables and assign different access/secret keys to MINIO_ROOT_USER and MINIO_ROOT_PASSWORD.
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 always returns empty list.
Other limitations:
- Bucket notification APIs are not supported.