This is a collection of very simple tools to manipulate blobs in azure blob storage. Most functions of the azure blob store aren't available through these tools.

I created these tools out of the pain and frustration that comes with trying to work with the tools currently available (looking at you, azure cli and azcopy).

For most usecases azure cli is absolutely over-powered and the official docker container weighs in at a whopping 1,13GiB (at time of writing).

azcopy is a go tool, that has a lot of good functionality. The interface is a bit clunky (anyone else who needed some time to wrap their head around --from-to? Still not sure what half of the possible values do), but the deal breaker for me are the intentional lack of SharedKey and SAS authentication and the choice to use the kernel keyring, which is disabled in docker by default, or the gnome-session-keyring, also not available in docker, to store the session token. Without any option to use anything else.

List files with prefix

azls https://<account>.blob.core.windows.net/<container>/<prefix>

Output blob contents to STDOUT

azcat https://<account>.blob.core.windows.net/<container>/<blob>

Write blob contents from STDIN

mongodump --archive | azput https://<account>.blob.core.windows.net/<container>/<blob>

Remove blob

azrm https://<account>.blob.core.windows.net/<container>/<blob>

Test connection

azping https://<account>.blob.core.windows.net/<container>/<blob>

Currently authentication will always be automatically derived from the environment. The environment variables are conveniently named just like the azure cli expects.

Supported methods (are tried in this order):

1. connection string AZURE_STORAGE_CONNECTION_STRING
2. shared key via AZURE_STORAGE_ACCOUNT_NAME and AZURE_STORAGE_ACCOUNT_KEY
3. OAuth via AZURE_TENANT_ID, AZURE_CLIENT_ID and
   1. AZURE_CLIENT_SECRET or
   2. AZURE_CLIENT_CERTIFICATE_PATH or
   3. AZURE_USERNAME and AZURE_PASSWORD
4. metadata service 169.254.169.254

There are no releases (yet), so the easiest way is installing using go install:

go install github.com/jpicht/azcat/cmd/multi/...

This will install the five standalone tools azcat, azls, azping, azput and azrm into your $GOPATH/bin/ directory.

There is a fifth tool called azblob which can be used in scenarios where more than one function is needed, but saving on size is necessary. It can either be used directly, but the command line options are a bit clunky and subject to change, or five symlinks ( azcat, azls, azping, azput and azrm) can be created pointing to it, and it behaves (nearly) exactly like these tools.