Given that you have a blob storage container with multiple files, you could download the most latest one easily with az cli
In my scenario I have a container named backups which includes multiple MS SQL backups. I wanted to download the latest in order to restore through a pipeline on SQL server.
In order to accomplish that you should first login with az cli.
az login
If this is not possible through automation you would have to create a managed identity for your resource. The code is uploaded on the below gist.
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Terraform is one of the best automation providers for DevOps purposes used by hundred of Engineers. It is an open source tool that can be used by anyone for free. In this article I will explain how to deploy windows and linux virtual machines on Azure using a Terraform template.
First things first you will need to have the az cli installed. Then you will have to set your subscription on your current powershell session.
az account set --subscription "12abc123-4567-1234-12345-asdr4334fsd"
Then you will need to create an app role assignment for your subscription. This will be used from terraform for the provision of the resources.
az ad sp create-for-rbac --role="Contributor" --scopes="/subscriptions/12abc123-4567-1234-12345-asdr4334fsd"
That’s all. You can now deploy your resources through terraform. In the links below I have provided my Github repository along with instructions for the template use.
A tricky part of the deployment is the vm image selection. In order to locate the available azure images names you can use: