usm blobmount

Mount an Azure Storage container as a local filesystem via blobfuse2.

usm blobmount <mount_dir> <account> <container>

What happens

1. If blobfuse2 isn't installed, it's pulled in via the Microsoft apt repo.
2. The current Azure CLI session (az login) is used to mint a short-lived SAS token for the container.
3. A blobfuse2 mount is started in the background; the container appears as a normal directory at <mount_dir>.

Example

az login
usm blobmount /mnt/data myaccount mycontainer
ls /mnt/data

Prerequisites

• Azure CLI (az) and an active login with permission on the storage account
• A writable empty directory at <mount_dir> (it's created if missing)
• Ubuntu (the apt repo it pulls from is Ubuntu-only)

Companion command

After mounting, use usm cp to copy in/out of the mount; it delegates to azcopy when one side is in the Azure namespace, which is much faster than going through the FUSE filesystem.

Source

scripts/blobmount.sh.