Prepare Your Blob Storage Container

Create a container in Azure portal:

1. From the Azure portal, Storage Accounts, choose your account, then in the container tab click + Container.
2. Make sure you block public access

Authenticate with Secret Key

In case you want to use the secret key for authentication you will need to use the account key in the configuration Go to the Access Keys tab and click on Show Keys save the values under Storage account name and Key we will need them in the installing lakeFS step

Authenticate with Active Directory

In case you want your lakeFS Installation (we will install in the next step) to access this Container using Active Directory authentication, First go to the container you created in step 1.

• Go to Access Control (IAM)
• Go to the Role assignments tab
• Add the Storage Blob Data Contributor role to the Installation running lakeFS.

You are now ready to create your first lakeFS repository.