Integrate Azure Files with Service Connector

This page shows the supported authentication types and client types of Azure Files using Service Connector. You might still be able to connect to Azure Files in other programming languages without using Service Connector. This page also shows default environment variable names and values (or Spring Boot configuration) you get when you create the service connection. You can learn more about Service Connector environment variable naming convention.

Supported compute service

• Azure App Service
• Azure Container Apps
• Azure Spring Apps

Supported authentication types and client types

Supported authentication and clients for App Service, Container Apps and Azure Spring Apps:

Client Type	System-assigned managed identity	User-assigned managed identity	Secret / connection string	Service principal
.NET
Java
Java - Spring Boot
Node.js
Python
PHP
Ruby
None

Default environment variable names or application properties

Use the connection details below to connect compute services to Azure Files. For each example below, replace the placeholder texts <account-name>, <account-key>, <storage-account-name> and <storage-account-key> with your own account name, account key, storage account name, and storage account key.

Azure App Service secret / connection string

Default environment variable name	Description	Example value
AZURE_STORAGEFILE_CONNECTIONSTRING	File storage connection string	DefaultEndpointsProtocol=https;AccountName=<account-name>;AccountKey=<account-key>;EndpointSuffix=core.windows.net

Azure Spring Cloud secret / connection string

Application properties	Description	Example value
azure.storage.account-name	File storage account name	<storage-account-name>
azure.storage.account-key	File storage account key	<storage-account-key>
azure.storage.file-endpoint	File storage endpoint	https://<storage-account-name>.file.core.windows.net/

Next steps

Follow the tutorials listed below to learn more about Service Connector.

Learn about Service Connector concepts