Retrieving the Connection String

TLDR

Purpose: Copy your Azure Storage account's connection string into a StorageLink Cloud Connection

Steps:

1. In the Azure portal, open Storage accounts and select your storage account
2. Under Security + networking, click Access keys
3. Click Show, then Copy to clipboard next to the connection string
4. Paste it into the StorageLink Cloud Credentials Connection String field

Note: The connection string is the access credential StorageLink uses to read and write files in your Azure Storage containers

Alternative: Use an instance identity (system-assigned managed identity) instead of a connection string

Product: StorageLink by Thorn Technologies — cloud storage gateway for secure file sharing

Overview

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Check out this article for configuring a Service Account for permissions to your Google Cloud Bucket. Otherwise, if you're on Azure, continue on to find out how to obtain your connection string.

A Connection String is a unique access credential that StorageLink uses to read and write files to an Azure Storage Container.

Finding the connection string

To find the connection string in your storage account, you can follow the below steps:

1. Go to the Storage accounts console in the Azure portal.

2. Click into the storage account you would like to use and on the left side-bar menu, under the Security + networking section, click on Access keys.

3. Click the Show button and then click the Copy to clipboard button to copy the connection string.

4. You can then paste that connection string value into the StorageLink Cloud Credentials Connection String field.