Retrieving the Connection String

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.