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powershellazureazure-blob-storage
blackpg
blackpg

Reputation: 57

How to get a copy file from blob storage in azure startup task?

Is there any power shell command to download file and place at Application Root in Windows Azure start-up task? I have geo location binary file(30Mb)which is downloaded from http://www.maxmind.com/app/geolitecity. I don't want to include binary file in my project, decided to place in blob storage for faster deployment purpose. I tried to read binary from URL using http://en.googlemaps.subgurim.net/, unfortunately no function to read from URL. So i'm finding the way to download that binary file and place in application root directory.

Thanks in advance!

Upvotes: 4

Views: 2819

Answers (3)

Richard Astbury
Richard Astbury

Reputation: 2353

You may also want to look at AzureRunMe:

https://github.com/RobBlackwell/AzureRunMe

AzureRunMe is a boostrap program that provides an off-the-shelf CSPKG file that you can upload to Windows Azure Compute and just run.

From there you can upload your code via ZIP files in Blob Storage and kick off your processes in a repeatable way, just by changing configuration.

Upvotes: 1

dunnry
dunnry

Reputation: 6868

Take a look at the Bootstrap project. It can download from blob storage (or anywhere), unzip, run, etc. in a startup task. It also works with the ServiceConfiguration and RoleEnvironment, so you can use variables from config, e.g:

bootstrapper.exe -get bootstrap/Installer.zip -lr $lr(temp) -unzip $lr(temp)\extract -sc $config(ConnectionString) -run $lr(temp)\extract\installer.msi -args /qn -block

Upvotes: 3

CB.
CB.

Reputation: 60910

maybe this can help:

$object = New-Object Net.WebClient
$url = 'http://geolite.maxmind.com/download/geoip/database/GeoLiteCity.dat.gz'
$local = "$pwd\GeoLiteCity.dat.gz" #path to save download file
$object.DownloadFile($url, $local)

In this case file is zipped, you need to unzip the dat file.

Upvotes: 4

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