Managing packages for Validation

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PLEASE REFER TO https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-stack/partner/

When using Package Validation workflow to validate a package, you will need to specify a package URI to an Azure Storage blob. An 'Azure Storage Blob' is hosted in the Azure public cloud (and not on your AzureStack environment).

Note: Please ensure that the zip contents are placed at the root of the zip file. There can be no sub-folders in the package.

Provision a storage account

To create a storage account, follow the "Create a storage account" steps ONLY in this link.

Make sure to select type of storage account as Blob Storage

Provision a storage container

Navigate to the storage account created in the above step (in Azure Portal) and select it
On the left blade look for Containers under Blob Service and click on it
Click on the "+ Container" option on the top menu and provide a name for the container e.g. vaaspackages

Note: The above steps need to be done only once. The same container can be re-used for later validations

Upload Package

If your package contains multiple files, compress it into a .zip file
Upload your package, to validate, by selecting the provisioned container and clicking the "Upload" menu item on the top menu bar
Specify the file to upload and keep defaults for Blob type (i.e. Block Blob) and Block size

Generate package blob URI link for VaaS

Option 1: Using public read container

Note: This option opens up your container for anonymous read only access.

Grant public read access for blobs only to container by following this link section Grant anonymous users permissions to containers and blobs ONLY
Then right click the uploaded package in the container and select "Properties..."
Copy the Uri from the opened blade
This is the URL to specify to VaaS

Option 2: Generating SAS connection string for container

Navigate to the storage account and select it
On the left blade look for Shared access signature under Settings and click on it
Check only "Blob" from Allowed Services options (uncheck remaining)
Check "Container" and "Object" from Allowed resource types
Check "Read", "List", from Allowed permissions
Select Start time as current time and End time as 1 hour depending on how long the test pass will go for
Click on "Generate SAS" and save the "Blob service SAS URL" string, which should look like this:

https://storageaccountname.blob.core.windows.net/?sv=2016-05-31&ss=b&srt=co&sp=rl&se=2017-05-11T21:41:05Z&st=2017-05-11T13:41:05Z&spr=https

Modify the generated SAS URL to include the container name and the name of your package:

https://storageaccountname.blob.core.windows.net/containername/mypackage.zip?sv=2016-05-31&ss=b&srt=co&sp=rl&se=2017-05-11T21:41:05Z&st=2017-05-11T13:41:05Z&spr=https