abc - Azure Blob Commands

A simple CLI to mess with Azure blobs.

Usage

abc is structured using commands and sub-commands. The command hierarchy is as follows.

• containers - do stuff with containers
  • ls - list containers on a storage account
  • mk - create containers on a storage account
  • rm - remove containers from a storage account
• blobs - do stuff with blobs in containers
  • ls - list blobs in a container
  • rm - remove blobs from a container

You can use the -h on any command to get more information:

abc blobs ls -h

Authentication

Authentication is attempted automatically according to the options listed in Azure authentication with the Azure Identity module for Go

Running abc is most easy on Azure workloads that have a managed identity assigned to them (see options 2 and 3 on the page linked above). Using a service principal with a secret is almost as easy, using the AZURE_CLIENT_ID, AZURE_TENANT_ID and AZURE_CLIENT_SECRET environment variables (option 1 on the page linked above).

Examples

The following examples assume authentication is taken care of.

List blobs in a container

abc blobs ls -n mystorageaccount -c mycontainer

This will list each blob on a separate line in the output.

Remove all but the last three blobs in a container

abc blobs rm -n mystorageaccount -c mycontainer $(abc blobs ls -n mystorageaccount -c mycontainer | head -n-3)