Azure Blob Storage

Azure Blob Storage is a scalable and durable cloud storage solution for storing and managing unstructured data.

Frends offers seamless integration with Azure Blob Storage, enabling you to effortlessly connect and automate data flows between your systems and Azure Blob Storage.

Frends has tasks for performing all core Azure Blob Storage operations.

By leveraging Frends' task-based approach, you can configure and customize Azure Blob Storage integrations according to your specific requirements. Frends offers a wide range of tasks that facilitate integrations to a variety of systems and protocols.

Getting Microsoft credentials

To get data needed for connection you need to register an application in Azure Active Directory and grant it the necessary permissions. Once you have registered the application, you can obtain the required credentials, which will be used to configure the connection in Frends. To do that you should do following steps:

1. Sign in to the Microsoft Entra admin center or Azure Portal.
2. Go to Identity > Applications > App registrations.
3. Select your application from the list (or create a New registration).
4. On the Overview page, copy the following values:

• Application (client) ID $\rightarrow$ ApplicationId
• Directory (tenant) ID $\rightarrow$ TenantId

1. The Client Secret acts as the "password" for the application. It is used to prove the application's identity when requesting a token.

Here you can find some useful Microsoft guides:

• How to find your Tenant ID
• Register an application with the Microsoft identity platform
• Create a new client secret

Use cases

Below you will find typical use cases for Azure Blob Storage integrations and how they are implemented in Frends.

Download objects

By using the schedule trigger in conjunction with ListBlobsInContainer and DownloadBlob tasks we can create an integration that saves objects to local file system every day. The downloaded files can then be processed further - uploaded to an SFTP, parsed for data contained in them etc.

Downloading objects

Upload objects

By using the file trigger and UploadBlob task we can create an integration that saves files to an Azure Blob Storage container. The file is then deleted from local file system.

Uploading objects