Azure Storage Blob client library for Rust

Azure Blob storage is Microsoft's object storage solution for the cloud. Blob storage is optimized for storing massive amounts of unstructured data, such as text or binary data.

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Getting started

⚠️ Note: The azure_storage_blob crate is currently under active development and not all features may be implemented or work as intended. This crate is in beta and not suitable for Production environments. For any general feedback or usage issues, please open a GitHub issue here.

Install the package

Install the Azure Storage Blob client library for Rust with cargo:

cargo add azure_storage_blob

Prerequisites

• You must have an Azure subscription and an Azure storage account to use this package.

Create a storage account

If you wish to create a new storage account, you can use the Azure Portal, Azure PowerShell, or Azure CLI:

# Create a new resource group to hold the storage account -
# if using an existing resource group, skip this step
az group create --name my-resource-group --location westus2

# Create the storage account
az storage account create -n my-storage-account-name -g my-resource-group

Authenticate the client

In order to interact with the Azure Blob Storage service, you'll need to create an instance of a client, BlobClient, BlobContainerClient, or BlobServiceClient. The Azure Identity library makes it easy to add Microsoft Entra ID support for authenticating Azure SDK clients with their corresponding Azure services:

use azure_storage_blob::{BlobClient, BlobClientOptions};
use azure_identity::DefaultAzureCredential;

#[tokio::main]
async fn main() -> Result<(), Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
    // Create a BlobClient that will authenticate through Microsoft Entra ID
    let credential = DefaultAzureCredential::new()?;
    let blob_client = BlobClient::new(
        "https://<storage_account_name>.blob.core.windows.net/", // endpoint
        "container_name".to_string(),                            // container name
        "blob_name".to_string(),                                 // blob name
        credential,                                              // credential
        Some(BlobClientOptions::default()),                      // BlobClient options
    )?;
    Ok(())
}

Permissions

You may need to specify RBAC roles to access Blob Storage via Microsoft Entra ID. Please see Assign an Azure role for access to blob data for more details.

Examples

Create BlobClient

use azure_storage_blob::{BlobClient, BlobClientOptions};
use azure_identity::DefaultAzureCredential;

#[tokio::main]
async fn main() -> Result<(), Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
    // Create a BlobClient that will authenticate through Microsoft Entra ID
    let credential = DefaultAzureCredential::new()?;
    let blob_client = BlobClient::new(
        "https://<storage_account_name>.blob.core.windows.net/", // endpoint
        "container_name".to_string(),                            // container name
        "blob_name".to_string(),                                 // blob name
        credential,                                              // credential
        Some(BlobClientOptions::default()),                      // BlobClient options
    )?;
    Ok(())
}

Upload Blob

use azure_core::http::RequestContent;
use azure_storage_blob::{BlobClient, BlobClientOptions};
use azure_identity::DefaultAzureCredential;

#[tokio::main]
async fn main() -> Result<(), Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
    let credential = DefaultAzureCredential::new()?;
    let blob_client = BlobClient::new(
        "https://<storage_account_name>.blob.core.windows.net/",
        "container_name".to_string(),
        "blob_name".to_string(),
        credential,
        Some(BlobClientOptions::default()),
    )?;

    let data = b"hello world";
    blob_client
        .upload(
            RequestContent::from(data.to_vec()), // data
            false,                               // overwrite
            u64::try_from(data.len())?,          // content length
            None,                                // upload options
        )
        .await?;
    Ok(())
}

Get Blob Properties

use azure_storage_blob::{BlobClient, BlobClientOptions};
use azure_identity::DefaultAzureCredential;

#[tokio::main]
async fn main() -> Result<(), Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {

    let credential = DefaultAzureCredential::new()?;
    let blob_client = BlobClient::new(
        "https://<storage_account_name>.blob.core.windows.net/",
        "container_name".to_string(),
        "blob_name".to_string(),
        credential,
        Some(BlobClientOptions::default()),
    )?;
    let blob_properties = blob_client.get_properties(
        None // get properties options
        )
        .await?;
    Ok(())
}

Next steps

Provide feedback

If you encounter bugs or have suggestions, open an issue.

Contributing

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