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Connect to Microsoft Azure Blob Storage V3

Let's configure the Microsoft Azure Blob Storage V3 connection properties to connect to Microsoft Azure Blob Storage.

Before you begin

Before you get started, you'll need to get the blob container name and type of Azure endpoint from your storage account. You also need to get information from your Microsoft Azure Blob Storage account based on the authentication type that you want to configure.
To use shared key authentication, you need the storage account name and account key. To use shared access signature authentication, you need the shared access signature token from the Azure portal.
Check out Prepare for authentication to learn more about the authentication prerequisites.

Connection details

The following table describes the basic connection properties:
Property
Description
Connection Name
Name of the connection.
Each connection name must be unique within the organization. Connection names can contain alphanumeric characters, spaces, and the following special characters: _ . + -,
Maximum length is 255 characters.
Description
Description of the connection. Maximum length is 4000 characters.
Type
Microsoft Azure Blob Storage V3
Use Secret Vault
Stores sensitive credentials for this connection in the secrets manager that is configured for your organization.
This property appears only if secrets manager is set up for your organization.
This property is not supported by Data Ingestion and Replication.
When you enable the secret vault in the connection, you can select which credentials that the Secure Agent retrieves from the secrets manager. If you don't enable this option, the credentials are stored in the repository or on a local Secure Agent, depending on how your organization is configured.
For information about how to configure and use a secrets manager, see Secrets manager configuration.
Runtime Environment
The name of the runtime environment where you want to run tasks.
Select a Secure Agent, Hosted Agent, or serverless runtime environment.
Select a Secure Agent.
Account Name
Microsoft Azure Blob Storage account name.

Authentication types

You can configure shared key authentication and shared access signature authentication types to access Microsoft Azure Blob Storage.
Select the required authentication method and then configure the authentication-specific parameters.

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