How to mount Azure Blob Storage as NFS Volume on Azure Kubernetes Service Cluster

Azure Storage Account

To Mount the blob storage as volume to Kubernetes pods

Create a premium storage account, while creating enable “network file system v3” option and create the storage account.

After creating the storage account

Go to storage account which we created now -> Containers -> New Containers ( To Create One ).

Also add the Kubernetes Vnet’s subnet to the storage account by clicking network inside the storage account

Azure Kubernetes Service:

first we need to create a NFS Persistent volume

apiVersion: v1
kind: PersistentVolume
metadata:
  name: nfs-blob-pv
  labels:
    type: nfs
spec:
  capacity:
    storage: 100Gi
  accessModes:
    - ReadWriteMany
  nfs:
    server: {storage account name}.blob.core.windows.net
    path: "/{storage account name}/{blob container name}"
  mountOptions:
    - nolock
    - vers=3
    - sec=sys
    - proto=tcp

Modify the manifest based on your storage account.

kubectl apply -f PersistentVolume.yaml

Now we need to create a persistent volume claim

apiVersion: v1
kind: PersistentVolumeClaim
metadata:
  name: nfs-blob-pvc
spec:
  accessModes:
    - ReadWriteMany
  storageClassName: ""
  resources:
    requests:
      storage: 10Gi
  selector: 
    matchLabels:
      type: nfs

kubectl apply -f PersistentVolumeClaim.yaml

Now add the PersistentVolumeClaim to your deployment