prefect-azure is a collection of prebuilt Prefect tasks that can be used to quickly construct Prefect flows.

Requires an installation of Python 3.7+

We recommend using a Python virtual environment manager such as pipenv, conda or virtualenv.

These tasks are designed to work with Prefect 2.0. For more information about how to use Prefect, please refer to the Prefect documentation.

Install prefect-azure with pip

pip install prefect-azure

To use Blob Storage:

pip install "prefect-azure[blob_storage]"

To use Cosmos DB:

pip install "prefect-azure[cosmos_db]"

To use ML Datastore:

pip install "prefect-azure[ml_datastore]"

from prefect import flow

from prefect_azure import AzureBlobStorageCredentials
from prefect_azure.blob_storage import blob_storage_download

@flow
def example_blob_storage_download_flow():
    connection_string = "connection_string"
    blob_storage_credentials = AzureBlobStorageCredentials(
        connection_string=connection_string,
    )
    data = blob_storage_download(
        blob="prefect.txt",
        container="prefect",
        azure_credentials=blob_storage_credentials,
    )
    return data

example_blob_storage_download_flow()

If you encounter and bugs while using prefect-azure, feel free to open an issue in the prefect-azure repository.

If you have any questions or issues while using prefect-azure, you can find help in either the Prefect Discourse forum or the Prefect Slack community

If you'd like to install a version of prefect-azure for development, clone the repository and perform an editable install with pip:

git clone https://github.com/PrefectHQ/prefect-azure.git

cd prefect-azure/

pip install -e ".[dev]"

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