There might be use cases, where you want to upload certain files to your Blob Storage programmatically rather than using Azure Storage Explorer.
In this article, we provide the steps to programmatically connect to your Umbraco Cloud Environments Azure Blob Storage containers and persist files programmatically.
These files within the folder will only be available on Azure Storage and are not publicly visible in Umbraco CMS. The only exception is that the files that can be shared publicly via the *.blob.core.windows.net
URL.
By the end of this article, you will have connected and uploaded a file to your Cloud Blob Storage.
You will need access to the Blob Storage credentials to authenticate and find the files created programmatically in the Azure Blob Storage.
An alternative to this guide is to use the Umbraco Storage Providers package or MediaFileManager.FileSystem
abstraction from the Custom File Systems (IFileSystem) article.
The first thing to do if you want to connect to the Azure Blob Storage container of your environment is the credentials.
To find the connection details for your environment's Blob Storage, follow the steps below:
Go to your project on Umbraco Cloud.
Go to Configuration in the side menu.
Go to Connections.
Scroll down to Blob Storage Connection Details
Copy the credentials needed for connecting to Azure Blob Storage.
Follow the steps below to get started connecting to Azure Blob Storage programmatically:
Clone down your Umbraco Cloud Project. You can find more information on how to clone a project in the Working Locally article.
Run your project.
Install Azure.Storage.Blobs
package on your project. You can do it either via NuGet Package Manager on Visual Studio or install it via NuGet.
Run the project to complete the installation of the package.
Add a new class called BlobStorageService
which serves as a service that has a method to connect to Blob Storage:
Add a new class called BlobStorageComposer
to inject the service:
Add a new class called BlobStorageController
which serves as the Surface Controller:
The controller is used to create a directory named FolderProgramatically
and a .txt
file in Azure Blob Storage.
In the above code, update the SASUrl
and containerName
values with your own from the Umbraco Cloud Settings. To find these values, refer to the instructions in the Connect to Azure Storage Explorer to upload files manually article.
You can also secure the values in Secrets Management in the project Settings on Umbraco Cloud so you do not store them in code. For more information, see the Secrets Management article.
Run the project.
Visit the {{yourProjectURL}}/umbraco/surface/BlobStorage/BlobUpdate
endpoint in the backoffice of your project to manually trigger the creation of the file to the Blob Storage.
Connect to your Blob Storage and there you will find the folder and file that has been created programmatically:
Now you have connected to your Blob Storage programmatically you can extend it to fit your needs in terms of what you need to upload to the blob container.
For more information on how to work with Azure Blob Storage, see the following articles from Microsoft: