I am looking for help to understand the integration of Unix file system with Azure DataBricks. I would like to connect to on-Prem Unix file systems and access relevant files and process through DataBricks and load into ADLS Gen2.
I understand that if the files are available in DBFS, we should be able to process. But my requirement is specific to process files available on on-prem Unix file system using Azure Technologies such as Azure DataBricks or Azure DataFactory.
Any suggestion/help in this regard will be very helpful.
Unfortunately, it is not possible to directly connect to on-Prem Unix file systems.
However you can try below workarounds:
You can upload files onto DBFS, and then access them. Browse DBFS using the UI
To copy large files use AzCopy. AzCopy is a command-line utility that you can use to copy blobs or files to or from a storage account.
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When ingesting data and transforming the various layers of our data lake built on top of Azure ADLS gen2 storage account (hierarchical), I can organize files in Containers or File Shares. We currently ingest raw files into a RAW container in their native format ".csv". We then take those files and merge them into a QUERY container in compressed parquet format so that we can virtualize all the data using Polybase in SQL server.
It is my understanding that only files stored within File Shares can be accessed using the typical SMB/UNC paths. When building out a data lake such as this, should Containers within ADLS be avoided in order to gain the additional benefit of being able to access those same files via File Shares?
I did notice that files located under File shares do not appear to support metadata key/values (unless it's just not exposed through the UI). Other than that, I wonder if there are any other real differences between the two types.
Thanks to #Gaurav for sharing the knowledge in comment section.
(Posting the answer using the details provided in comment section to help other community members.)
Earlier, only the files which were stored in Azure storage File Share can be accessed using the typical SMB/UNC paths. But recently, now it is possible to mount Blob Container as well using the NFS 3.0 protocol. This Microsoft official document provides step-by-step guidance.
Limitation: You can mount a container in Blob storage only from a Linux-based Azure Virtual Machine (VM) or a Linux system that runs on-premises. There is no support for Windows and Mac OS.
Our end goal is for our Linux VM servers to access the Azure Datalake directly as a mounted filesystem. Microsoft states that the Azure Datalake is hdfs compatible so we were wondering if it is possible to mount directly through something like Fuse or indirectly through a Hadoop system?
Anything available in Azure goes.
Desperately looking for examples from somebody who has done this.
goofys supports mounting azure datalake: https://github.com/kahing/goofys/blob/master/README-azure.md#azure-blob-storage
Presently, it is not possible to mount an Azure Data Lake Store account as a drive on a linux server.
Please add a feature request at http://aka.ms/adlfeedback.
I'm confused about the difference between "files" and other objects in Azure storage. I understand how to upload a file to a share using the Azure web console and command line, but in the Azure Storage Explorer I don't see either of these, but only see "blobs" and though I can upload "files" there using the explorer, I can't upload to or see any of my "file" "shares".
Is there a way to browse and manage "files" and "shares" using Azure Storage Explorer, or some other client or CLI tool (on OS X)?
It is the different services. Azure Storage is... the "umbrella" service that consists of some services - Queues (obvious :)), Tables (kind of a noSQL table storage), Blobs (binary large objects, from text files to multimedia) and Files (the service that implements the file shares that may be connected to the Virtual Machine, for example, as a file share).
They are different services that may be used from the Azure Storage Explorer, but it depends on what you want to use and/or implement. If you need to put just files, you may use blobs. If you need to attach the storage as a file share to the VM, then the Files service is what you need. Good comparison.
I am not sure if you can manage Files with the Azure Storage Explorer (UPD: checked - do not), but something like CloudXplorer is able to do that.
You can browse and add/edit/delete files in Azure File Shares similar to how you would any other file share after mounting. You can refer to these two articles on how to do so:
Mount Azure File Share in Windows
Mount Azure File Share in Linux
Alternatively, you can use CLI or PowerShell, see examples below:
PowerShell example
CLI example
I am trying to use azure spark. To run my job, I need to copy my dependancy jar and files to storage. i have created a storage and container. Could you please guide me how to access Azure storage from my linux machine so as to copy date from/to it.
Since you didn't state your restrictions (e.g., command line, programmatically, gui), here are a few options:
If you have access to a recent Python interpreter on your Linux machine, you can use blobxfer (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/blobxfer), which can transfer entire directories of files into and out of Azure blob storage.
Use Azure cross-platform cli (https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/xplat-cli/) which has functionality to transfer files one at a time into or out of Azure storage.
Directly invoke Azure storage calls via Azure storage SDKs programmatically. There are SDKs available in a variety of languages along with REST.
how can i upload larger files into azure hadoop cluster?
Is there a way i can browse to the /example/apps directory in hadoop cluster by taking remote desktop connection so that i can copy the files?
HDInsight uses Windows Azure Blob storage (WASB). There are several ways you can upload data to WASB:
AzCopy
Windows Azure PowerShell
3rd party tools include Azure Storage Explorer, Cloud Storage Studio 2, CloudXplorer and so on.
Hadoop command line. You must enable RDP first.
For more information, see http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/manage/services/hdinsight/howto-upload-data-to-hdinsight/.
Copy the files to Azure Blob Storage via HTTP/HTTPS and then MapReduce them from Hadoop on Azuure (HDInsight) by pointing at the HTTP URL of the uploaded file(s).
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