how to design web app hosted on Azure

Question

I have to implement a distributed system.

I need to allow users to specify a set of parameters (from a window if possible) and load a dataset on which to run a job.

I don't know how to design the part related to parameter specification and dataset loading.

I use blobs, and if I use a front end on my computer, and a file already in Blob storage, my "app" works.

Now I would like to understand: what should I do to allow a user to connect to my app, upload a dataset and launch a job?

(I know I'll probably need to use Azure App Service, but I'd like to figure out how to implement this part).

A critical point is also the management of datasets:

if my app will be hosted on azure, how do I allow a user to upload the dataset on his pc to a blob?

I'm a bit confused on this part...I'd like some general clarification.

Answer 1

Hi, Domenico.

Can you give users access to Azure Storage Explorer? They can upload directly to the storage account.

Or you could have a scheduled task, running azcopy, that uploads files into a Azure storage account from a fileshare on a server.