A FUSE wrapper for Windows Azure Blob Storage. It provides basic functionality to mount Azure Blob Storage as a local filesystem to your computer.
There is no user-friendly interface to manage files on Azure cloud storage. Sometimes we need to:
- list files under a container
- transfer a bunch of local files to the cloud
- remove files matching a specific name pattern
- rename files on the cloud
- move files accross containers
AzureFS is a command-line interface where you can mount your Windows
Azure storage account as a folder on your computer and accomplish
such everyday tasks practically using UNIX commands like ls
, mkdir
, cp
etc.
It is neither rock-solid nor should be used except for manual tasks. Your programs should communicate Windows Azure Storage service via its REST API.
This project requires fusepy
:
git clone https://github.com/terencehonles/fusepy.git
cd fusepy
sudo python setup.py install
Install azure-sdk-for-python
. Run sudo easy_install azure
or sudo pip install azure
or
git clone https://github.com/WindowsAzure/azure-sdk-for-python.git
cd azure-sdk-for-python/src
sudo python setup.py install
Install libfuse2
, fuse-utils
and libfuse-dev
dependencies.
On Debian/Ubuntu:
apt-get install libfuse2 fuse-utils libfuse-dev
(Optional: run sudo chmod 777 /etc/fuse.conf
)
-
Create a folder for your mount point e.g.
mkdir /home/john/azure_folder
-
Navigate to
azurefs
folder you cloned from this repo -
Run
python azurefs.py <MOUNT_POINT> <YOUR_STORAGE_ACCOUNT> <STORAGE_SECRET_KEY>
-
Do not shutdown this process, in some other tab, navigate to your mount point e.g.
azure_folder
. -
To try something out, create a container by
mkdir mycontainer
, and create a file e.g.date >> date.txt
. -
You are ready to go. When you're done, simply hit
Ctrl-C
to unmount.
Here's a neat blog post explains the project, highly recommended read:
- Single-level file hierarchy (i.e.
/container/file
)- Nested directories (i.e
/container/directory/file
) are not supported.
- Nested directories (i.e
- Untested Mac OS X support (probably won't work)
- No support for files on root level (container name is
$root
) - Freezes GUI environments e.g. standard Ubuntu; works fine on Ubuntu Server
- Couldn't make use of delete container REST API call due to UNIX VFS interface.
Therefore if you attempt to
rm -rf
a container with 1000s of files, you'll wait a lot. Instead, do it programmatically.
AzureFS, copyright 2012 Ahmet Alp Balkan. Licensed under Apache License Version 2.0, see http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html
This project is neither affiliated with Windows Azure(TM) nor supported by Microsoft Corporation (C). Use it at your own risk.
Azure SDK for Python, copyright Microsoft Corporation (C). Licensed under Apache License Version 2.0 Project available on https://github.com/WindowsAzure/azure-sdk-for-python
fusepy, licensed under New BSD License. Project available on https://github.com/terencehonles/fusepy
Ahmet Alp Balkan 'ahmetalpbalkan at gmail.com'