how to transfer file from VM to storage account via service principal?

Question

i want to user azcopy to copy transfer files from VM to storage account via service principals. can you give me some advices? thanks~

i has completed task as below:

1. has created new service principals ,and granted access right of storage account by ACL
2. created new azure key vault, create new secrets on key vault, and save value of secret of service principal on Secret scopes.
3. has grant get/list permission of key vault to service principal.
4. has added VM's Vnet/subnet to key vault's whitelist.

any more action is i need to do? for VM, what is need to do more?

Answer 1

To clarify, the permissions to the storage account should be granted via RBAC (not ACL).

The full set of instructions is available at https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-paas-blog/using-service-principal-with-azcopy-amp-azure-cli-to-manage/ba-p/2172474

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hth

Marcin