Azure Blob Storage

Component format

To setup the Azure Blob Storage state store create a component of type state.azure.blobstorage. See this guide on how to create and apply a state store configuration.

apiVersion: dapr.io/v1alpha1
kind: Component
metadata:
  name: <NAME>
spec:
  type: state.azure.blobstorage
  version: v1
  metadata:
  - name: accountName
    value: "[your_account_name]"
  - name: accountKey
    value: "[your_account_key]"
  - name: containerName
    value: "[your_container_name]"

Spec metadata fields

Setup Azure Blob Storage

Follow the instructions from the Azure documentation on how to create an Azure Storage Account.

If you wish to create a container for Dapr to use, you can do so beforehand. However, the Blob Storage state provider will create one for you automatically if it doesn’t exist.

In order to setup Azure Blob Storage as a state store, you will need the following properties:

• accountName: The storage account name. For example: mystorageaccount.
• accountKey: Primary or secondary storage account key.
• containerName: The name of the container to be used for Dapr state. The container will be created for you if it doesn’t exist.

Authenticating with Azure AD

This component supports authentication with Azure AD as an alternative to use account keys. Whenever possible, it is recommended that you use Azure AD for authentication in production systems, to take advantage of better security, fine-tuned access control, and the ability to use managed identities for apps running on Azure.

The following scripts are optimized for a bash or zsh shell and require the following apps installed:

• Azure CLI
• jq

You must also be authenticated with Azure in your Azure CLI.

1. To get started with using Azure AD for authenticating the Blob Storage state store component, make sure you’ve created an Azure AD application and a Service Principal as explained in the Authenticating to Azure document.
   Once done, set a variable with the ID of the Service Principal that you created:

SERVICE_PRINCIPAL_ID="[your_service_principal_object_id]"

2. Set the following variables with the name of your Azure Storage Account and the name of the Resource Group where it’s located:

STORAGE_ACCOUNT_NAME="[your_storage_account_name]"
RG_NAME="[your_resource_group_name]"

3. Using RBAC, assign a role to our Service Principal so it can access data inside the Storage Account.
   In this case, you are assigning the “Storage blob Data Contributor” role, which has broad access; other more restrictive roles can be used as well, depending on your application.

RG_ID=$(az group show --resource-group ${RG_NAME} | jq -r ".id")
az role assignment create \
  --assignee "${SERVICE_PRINCIPAL_ID}" \
  --role "Storage blob Data Contributor" \
  --scope "${RG_ID}/providers/Microsoft.Storage/storageAccounts/${STORAGE_ACCOUNT_NAME}"

When authenticating your component using Azure AD, the accountKey field is not required. Instead, please specify the required credentials in the component’s metadata (if any) according to the Authenticating to Azure document.

For example:

apiVersion: dapr.io/v1alpha1
kind: Component
metadata:
  name: <NAME>
spec:
  type: state.azure.blobstorage
  version: v1
  metadata:
  - name: accountName
    value: "[your_account_name]"
  - name: containerName
    value: "[your_container_name]"
  - name: azureTenantId
    value: "[your_tenant_id]"
  - name: azureClientId
    value: "[your_client_id]"
  - name: azureClientSecret
    value : "[your_client_secret]"

Apply the configuration

In Kubernetes

To apply Azure Blob Storage state store to Kubernetes, use the kubectl CLI:

kubectl apply -f azureblob.yaml

Running locally

To run locally, create a components dir containing the YAML file and provide the path to the dapr run command with the flag --components-path.

This state store creates a blob file in the container and puts raw state inside it.

For example, the following operation coming from service called myservice:

curl -X POST http://localhost:3500/v1.0/state \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json"
  -d '[
        {
          "key": "nihilus",
          "value": "darth"
        }
      ]'

This creates the blob file in the container with key as filename and value as the contents of file.

Concurrency

Azure Blob Storage state concurrency is achieved by using ETags according to the Azure Blob Storage documentation.

Related links

• Basic schema for a Dapr component
• Read this guide for instructions on configuring state store components
• State management building block