Prerequisites to Create a Microsoft Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 Connection

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Creating a Storage Account to use with Microsoft Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2

Perform the following steps to create a storage account:

Under Azure Services, click

Storage accounts

On the

Storage accounts

page, click

Create

to create a new storage account.

On the

Basics

tab, enter the project and instance details.

In the

Subscription

field, select the subscription in which you want to create the storage account.

In the

Resource group

field, select the resource group in which the Azure resources are deployed and managed.

In the

Storage account name

field, enter a name for your storage account.

The name must be unique across Azure, between 3 and 24 characters in length, and must include only numbers and lowercase letters.

In the

Location

field, select a location for your storage account, or use the default location.

In the

Performance

field, select

Standard

In the

Account kind

field, select

StorageV2 (general purpose v2)

A general-purpose v2 storage account provides access to all the Azure Storage services, such as blobs, files, queues, tables, and disks.

In the

Replication

field, select

Geo-redundant storage (GRS)

The replication type specifies how the storage account will be replicated.

On the

Advanced

tab, set the

Secure transfer required

and

Hierarchical namespace

fields to

Enabled

When you run a mapping on the Databricks Spark engine, the request to the Azure Blob Filesystem (abfs) is always made over secure connections whether you enable the

Secure transfer required

option or not.

Click

Review + Create

Create

Click on the newly created storage account name.

Click

Access control (IAM)

Add

On the

Add role assignment

page, assign a role to the users.

In the

Role

field, select

Reader

Contributor

To add or remove role assignments, you must have write and delete permissions, such as an Owner role.

In the

Assign access to

field, select

Azure AD user, group or service principal

In the

Select

field, select the user that requires access to the storage account.

Click

Save

If you want to add multiple users to access the storage account, you must perform the same steps for each user.

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Prerequisites to Create a Microsoft Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 Connection

Prerequisites to Create a Microsoft Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 Connection

Creating a Storage Account to use with Microsoft Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2

Creating a Storage Account to use with Microsoft Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2