Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer is a standalone software for Windows, macOS, and Linux that makes working with Azure Storage data simple.
You’ll learn how to connect to and manage your Azure storage accounts in this blog.
What Is Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer?
You can use Azure Storage Explorer to connect and manage your Azure storage service accounts and resources across subscriptions. In Azure Storage, Azure Cosmos DB, and Data Lake Storage, you can create, delete, view, and update resources.
Storage Explorer allows you to operate without being connected to the cloud or using local emulators, which increases productivity and efficiency while lowering expenditures. Even better, it’s based on Azure’s industry-leading security.
How To Install Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer?
To get a free copy of Storage Explorer, simply go to Azure Storage Explorer – cloud storage management | Microsoft Azure. After you’ve installed it, you’ll need to connect it to an active Azure account and link your storage resources to it before you can start manipulating files, querying tables, and so on.
How To Use Azure Storage Explorer?
We can use Azure storage explorer to connect with storage account or other services. You may connect your Storage Explorer application to your Azure storage accounts in a few different ways.
To access your Azure storage account, you’ll need two permissions: management and data. Storage Explorer, on the other hand, can be used with simply the data-layer permission. The data layer requires that the user be given at least a read data role. The read/write role’s nature should be tailored to the type of data stored in the storage account. Blobs, containers, and other data resources are accessed through the data layer.
The management role allows you to view a list of all of your storage accounts, containers, and service endpoints.
Connection Types
You can link an Azure Storage Explorer instance to your Azure resources in a variety of ways. Consider the following scenario:
- Use a connection string
- Add resources by using Azure Active Directory
- Use a shared access signature URI
- Attach to a local emulator
- Use a name and key
- Attach to Azure Data Lake by using a URI
- Attach to Azure Cosmos DB through a connection string
We’ll look at a number of these connection types and go over the actions involved in setting up the connection.
Add An Azure Account By Using AAD [Azure Active Directory]
When the user has access to the data layer, use this connection type. Only an Azure Data Lake blob container or a normal blob container can be created with it. Using Azure AD to connect to Azure Storage takes more configuration than the other methods. To access the target resources, the account you use to connect to Azure must have the appropriate permissions and authorization.
To add a resource using Azure AD, follow these steps:
1) Open Storage Explorer.
2) Sign in to Azure using the Add an Azure Account option.
3) Select Blob container, ADLS Gen2 container, or Queue in the Connect to Azure Storage dialog’s Select Resource panel.
4) Next, select Sign in using Azure Active Directory (Azure AD).
5) Choose an Azure account as well as a tenant. The Storage resource you wish to attach must be accessible to both the account and the tenant. Select Next.
6) Give your connection a display name and the resource’s URL. Select Next.
7) In the Summary panel, look over your connection information. Select Connect if the connection information is valid.
Shared Access Signature (SAS) Connection String
A connection string with a Shared Access Signature can be used to connect to a storage account in Storage Explorer (SAS).
1) In the Select Resource panel Select Storage account in the Connect to Azure Storage.
2) Select Shared access signature (SAS) from the drop-down menu and then Next.
3) Give your connection a name and the SAS connection string for the storage account. Select Next.
4) In the Summary panel, look over your connection information. Select Connect if the connection information is valid.
Connect To A Storage Account
1) Select View > Account Management or the Manage Accounts icon in Storage Explorer.
2) ACCOUNT MANAGEMENT now shows all of the Azure accounts to which you have access. Select Add an account to connect to another account.
3) The prompt for connecting to Azure Storage appears. Select Subscription from the Select Resource panel.
4) Select an Azure environment to sign in to in the Select Azure Environment screen. You can sign in to an Azure Stack instance, a national cloud, or a global Azure account. Then choose Next.
5) Storage Explorer will take you to a sign-in page.
6) The account and any Azure subscriptions linked with it appear under ACCOUNT MANAGEMENT after you successfully login in using an Azure account. Select the Azure subscriptions you’d like to use, and then click Apply.
7) The storage accounts linked with the selected Azure subscriptions are displayed in EXPLORER.
Contact us if you have any questions about Azure Storage Explorer, Azure storage options, or any other Azure product or service.
Related/References
- Microsoft Certified Azure Data Engineer Associate | DP 203 | Step By Step Activity Guides (Hands-On Labs)
- Exam DP-203: Data Engineering on Microsoft Azure
- Azure Data Lake For Beginners: All you Need To Know
- Batch Processing Vs Stream Processing: All you Need To Know
- Introduction to Big Data and Big Data Architectures
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