Using Azure Cloud for Storing Episerver CMS Blobs

Using Azure Cloud for Storing Episerver CMS Blobs -

Working with multiple developers in the Episerver Environment requires sharing Blobs. One of the best options our team agreed on was using Free Azure account to do a POC.

The following would help you to set-up storage account in Azure and use that as a default blob provider for your Episerver project.

Create a storage account by using the Azure portal
Create a Resource, Resource Group & Storage Account
Create Container and Get Access keys
Install Azure Packages in Episerver
Transfer files using AzCopy

1) Create a storage account by using the Azure portal

https://portal.azure.com/

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2) Create a Resource, Resource Group & Storage Account

Resource: A manageable item that is available through Azure. EX: Storage account, Web app, Database, VM

Resource Group: A container that holds related resources for an Azure solution.

Storage Account: A general-purpose storage account provides access to all of the Azure Storage services: blobs, files, queues, and tables.

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2) Resource Group:

2) Storage Account

3)Create Container and Get Access keys

After creating the storage account, you can add a container and get keys for the storage account to access them in Episerver CMS. The connectionstring info is used to connect the Azure storage.

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4) Install Azure Packages in Episerver CMS Project.

Add EPiServer Azure Nuget Package

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4) Add the following in in web.config

Change Blob provider : "mycontainer" is name of your Azure Blob Storage Container

 <blob defaultProvider="azureblobs">
      <providers>
        <add name="azureblobs" type="EPiServer.Azure.Blobs.AzureBlobProvider,EPiServer.Azure"
              connectionStringName="EPiServerAzureBlobs" container="mycontainer"/>
      </providers>
    </blob>


Add connection string

<connectionStrings>
    <add name="EPiServerAzureBlobs" connectionString="DefaultEndpointsProtocol=https;AccountName=myaccount;AccountKey=abcdefghij" />
  </connectionStrings>

5) Upload/Transfer blobs using AzCopy

AzCopy is a command-line utility designed for copying data to/from Microsoft Azure Blob
AzCopy /Source:C:\myfolder /Dest:https://myaccount.blob.core.windows.net/mycontainer /DestKey:key /S

That's it. Run the website and You are using Azure storage for blobs. This would help your team in the multi-developer environment and remote development as well.

This POC was done using free VS subscription and we have moved to Gov Cloud now.

Reference: Azure Quick Start

Mar 24, 2018

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