This node connects to Azure Blob Storage. The resulting output port allows downstream nodes to access the Azure Blob Storage data as a file system, e.g. to read or write files and folders, or to perform other file system operations (browse/list files, copy, move, ...).

This node requires the Microsoft Authentication to perform authentication. The following authentication modes are supported:

• Interactive Authentication
• Username/password Authentication
• Shared key authentication (Azure Storage only)
• Shared access signature (SAS) authentication (Azure Storage only)

Path syntax: Paths for Azure Blob Storage are specified with a UNIX-like syntax, /mycontainer/myfolder/myfile . An absolute for Azure Blob Storage consists of:

1. A leading slash ( / ).
2. Followed by the name of a container ( mycontainer in the above example), followed by a slash.
3. Followed by the name of an object within the container ( myfolder/myfile in the above example).

URI formats: When you apply the Path to URI node to paths coming from this connector, you can create URIs with the following formats:

1. Shared Access Signature (SAS) URLs which contain credentials, that allow to access files for a certain amount of time (see Azure documentation ).
2. wasbs:// URLs to access Azure Blob Storage from inside Hadoop environments.