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Mount Azure Data Lake Storage to Windows VM file system

Is it possible to mount folders in Azure Data Lake Storage Gen 1 to the file system of a Windows Virtual machine, so these folders can be opening like normal folders in Windows?

Solution

  • Azure Data Lake Storage Gen 1 or 2 is based on Azure Blob storage. You can mount it use free tools rclone as I describe in this article similar to AWS S3.

    https://builtwithcloud.com/how-to-mount-amazon-s3-bucket-as-a-network-drive-on-windows-with-free-tools/

    Rclone: is a command line program to sync files and directories to and from multiple cloud storage including AWS,Azure Blob, Google Cloud https://rclone.org/

    WinFSP: windows file systm proxy to be able to mount the folders as drive.

    NSSM : to install rclone mount as service