Pipeworks | Building With Blob Storage

Building With Blob Storage

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Sometimes structured storage isn't really what you're after. Sometimes, you just want to throw a blob of bytes into the cloud and call it a day.

For these times, Pipeworks provides commands to interact with Azure Blob Storage. To run this demo yourself, you need to use Add-SecureSetting to set up your access keys first.

Let's start off by enumerating all blobs:

Get-Blob -StorageAccount (Get-SecureSetting AzureStorageAccountName -ValueOnly) -StorageKey (Get-SecureSetting AzureStorageAccountKey -ValueOnly)

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Now let's thru some files in a new container: -Public makes the container public

Get-Module Pipeworks |             
    Split-Path |             
    Join-Path -ChildPath en-us |            
    Get-ChildItem |            
    Export-Blob -Container PipeworksDemos -Public

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To list items in the container, we use Get-Blob again

Get-Blob -Container PipeworksDemos

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Let's open up a random on in the browser

Get-Blob -Container PipeworksDemos | Get-Random | Foreach-Object { Start-Process -FilePath $_.Url }

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To import the data in the blob, you can either pipe container results of Get-Blob back to Get-Blob (which will return the data and the URL and modification time), or you can use Import-Blob

# Return the blob and containing data            
Get-Blob -Container PipeworksDemos | Select-Object -First 1 |  Get-Blob            
            
            
 # Just import the data            
Get-Blob -Container PipeworksDemos | Select-Object -First 1 | Import-Blob

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To remove items from blob storage, we can use Remove-Blob

Get-Blob -Container PipeworksDemos | Select-Object -First 1  | Remove-Blob -Confirm:$false

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We can also remove the whole container:

Remove-Blob -Container PipeworksDemos -Confirm:$false