For every new fileshare that we create in Azure Storage account we get a connect option
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if we click connect we get the below options,
is it possible to get that piece of code to mount this fileshare through terraform? I could not find it anywhere. Any help on this would be appreciated
Of course, it's possible. You just need to copy the code into a script and then use the VM extension to execute inside the VM. It's not complex at all. Here is an example.
But there is one thing you need to pay attention to, the VM extension only supports the non-interactive script. For example, the connect code for the Linux, the command sudo is an interactive command, so it's not recommended to use in the VM extension. You can get more details about the VM extension here.
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Basically for an application, we're planning to mount a Azure fileshare to directly write the logs to. However we want to create a health check to notify the team if the fileshare mount fails. Can someone help me how I can implement this functionality? Its a RHEL VM in Azure
• Yes, there is a way through which you can check whether the Azure file share has been mounted successfully or not in the Linux VM or not. You can run a script in your Linux VM through custom script extension and check its output whether the azure file share has mounted successfully or not.
Run the script in the below github link named ‘AzFileDiagnostics.sh’ in your RHEL Linux VM through the commands as below: -
Github link : - https://github.com/Azure-Samples/azure-files-samples/tree/master/AzFileDiagnostics/Linux
Commands for the script to run: - ‘sudo bash AzFileDiagnostics.sh’ or ‘sudo bash AzFileDiagnostics.sh -u //storageaccountname.file.core.windows.net/sharename’
Output: -
• This script when run will check all the prerequisites for connecting to Azure File share like checking port 445 TCP, SMB 3.3 for encryption purposes, cifs-utils package is installed or not, etc., and when all these requirements are met, it will mount the azure file share through the commands as stated above. Also, you can check the diagnostics logs through monitoring section by enabling them and collecting logs regarding this script for connection details.
Please find the below link for more reference: -
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/files/storage-troubleshoot-linux-file-connection-problems#solution
I am writing a program that uploads a file to Azure blob storage, creates a virtual machine, and now I want to download and execute that file within the VM. For that I am trying to execute the command az storage blob download <parameters> in the VM, but unfortunately az is not recognized. How can I enable that the Azure CLI is (pre)installed on each new VM? Is there such a possibility provided by Azure? Or should I install the Azure CLI with yum for each VM within my script? Any information or ideas is highly appreciated, thank you.
You need to install the Azure CLI yourself. See the steps here. You can install it following the steps one by one, or put the commands inside a script and execute the script in the VM extension or cloud-init in the creation time.
I don't know how to connect to an existing Azure File Share from Azure Cloud Shell.
The command clouddrive seems to move my default cloud shell storage account. But I don't want to do that. I just want to access my existing Azure File Share storage. This can exist in any Azurea region (not just what's available for Cloud Shell, which is currently very limited)
When I tried to use clouddrive to mount my existing Azure Files account, I get the following error message:
ERROR: The storage account is not in the valid location. Expect: eastus Actual: canadacentral
I'd prefer not to move my existing Azure File Shares from canadacentral to eastus. Is there a workaround for this?
I'd like to just connect to my existing Azure File Shares through Cloud Shell and run commands in those directories.
Thank you!
Same question asked here:
https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/azure-docs/issues/42001
https://serverfault.com/questions/992834/connect-to-azure-file-share-from-azure-cloud-shell
Azure cloud shell is an interactive, authenticated, browser-accessible shell which backend is running on cloud shell hosts. The cloud shell machines are temporary but your files are persisted through a mounted file share named clouddrive.
By using the advanced option, you can associate existing resources. Also, the associated Azure storage accounts must reside in the same region as the Cloud Shell machine that you're mounting them to. To find your current region you may run env in Bash and locate the variable ACC_LOCATION.
As the document stated, the canadacentral is not an available region for Cloud Shell, you should mount file storage in the available region. If so, you can run clouddrive unmount to unmount the current file share then select the existing file storage in the available region via clicking advanced settings in the initial login.
I am unable to do anything with my Azure account such as create servers or databases or anything. It seems like it all revolves around resource groups which I cannot create> I get this error:
It's especially tough because I can't even use a cloud shell since I get this:
Requesting a Cloud Shell.
PowerShell may take up to a minute.Failed to provision a Cloud Shell: {"code":"AuthenticationFailed","message":"Authentication failed. The 'Authoriza
tion' header is missing."}
Any idea what this could mean?
Do you have a valid subscription?
If you do make sure you have the right permissions to it.
Cloud shell need to create a storage to work. If you can't create any resource on subscription cloud shell will surely fail.
I'm trying to create an Azure VM and then copy an install file to the VM and then silently installing it. I have created a basic Azure Resource Group project, and can create and deploy the VM, but I can't figure out how to do everything from the powershell script.
It sounds like you could use a custom script extension to do what you want. In your ARM template, you can specify the url for a file and the command to run; Azure will handle getting the file onto your VM and running it based on your command. Here is an example from the Azure Quickstart Templates: https://github.com/Azure/azure-quickstart-templates/tree/master/windows-vm-custom-script
Hope this helps! :)