AzureBlobStorageProvider

A PowerShell Provider for Azure Blob Storage

Usage Information

You must import the module AzureBlobStorageProvider to use the blob storage provider.

Azure Storage Connection Strings

To mount an Azure Blob Storage account as a drive, you'll need a connection string for the account. This connection string needs to be passed as the -Root parameter for the new-psdrive cmdlet.

The format of these connection strings is documented here.

Provider Hierarchy

Drive Root (represents an Azure Storage Account)
|───BlobContainer
│   └───BlobDirectory
│   |   │   BlobBlock
│   |   │   BlobBlock
│   |   │   ...

Currently Supported Operations

• get-item
• get-childitem
• get-content

Get-Content Dynamic Parameters

The get-content cmdlet supports the following custom parameters:

• -AsText: when specified, the content is returned as text rather than bytes
• -Raw: when specified, text is returned as a single string; implies -AsText when specified
• -Delimiter : The end-of-line delimiter to use; implies -AsText when specified; defaults to Environment.Newline

Examples

# fetch the content in mydatafile as individual bytes
get-content ./mydatafile

# fetch the content in mydatafile as text
get-content ./mydatafile -asText

# fetch the content in mydatafile as a single string
get-content ./mydatafile -Raw

# fetch the content in mydatafile as a semicolon delimited string
get-content ./mydatafile -delimiter ";"

Quick Start

Below is a session transcript that demonstrates the provider's basic usage.

PS C:\> import-module AzureBlobStorageProvider
PS C:\> new-psdrive -psp blob -name blob -root 'DefaultEndpointsProtocol=https;AccountName=YourAccountName;AccountKey=YourAccessKey'
PS C:\> cd blob:
PS blob:\> dir

                            Last Modified Type       Name
----------                  ------------- ----       ----
d  <          8/17/2016 3:18:25 AM +00:00 Container  dataout
d  <          7/28/2016 8:57:27 PM +00:00 Container  hadorp


PS blob:\> cd dataout
PS blob:\dataout> dir

                            Last Modified Type       Name
----------                  ------------- ----       ----
d  <                                      Directory  documentwordcounts.txt
d  <                                      Directory  totalwordcounts.txt
   <          9/12/2016 3:12:02 AM +00:00 Blob       documentwordcounts.txt
   <          9/12/2016 3:11:59 AM +00:00 Blob       totalwordcounts.txt


PS blob:\dataout> cd totalwordcounts.txt
PS blob:\dataout\totalwordcounts.txt> dir



                            Last Modified Type       Name
----------                  ------------- ----       ----
d  <                                      Directory  .hive-staging_hive_2016-09-12_03-11-56_447_8455690809408588477-1
   <          9/12/2016 3:11:58 AM +00:00 Blob       .hive-staging_hive_2016-09-12_03-11-56_447_8455690809408588477-1
   <                                      Directory  .hive-staging_hive_2016-09-12_03-11-56_447_8455690809408588477-1
   <          9/12/2016 3:11:59 AM +00:00 Blob       000000_0

PS blob:\dataout\totalwordcounts.txt> $data = get-content ./000000_0 -astext
PS blob:\dataout\totalwordcounts.txt> $data
a,42424,1781
a-star,1,1
a-z,2,2
aa,14,5
aad,3,2
aaron,9,9
abap,168,9
...