This Turtlesystems integration for Visual Studio Team Services provides a task which can create and upload files to and Azure Storage container. Additionally it will create a SAS token for allowing access to the files.

For example, when developing and testing an Azure Resource Manager (ARM) template, the task can be used to upload all the files to Blob storage. The deployment can then be performed pulling files from there.

Requirements

As the task requires the ability to communicate with your Azure Subscription it uses the Azure Resource Manager connected service.

Be sure to create such a service for your build, so that it can be selected in the task settings.

Azure RM Connected Service

Parameters

There are a number of parameters for the task.

Name	Description	Required	Default Value
Azure Subscription	The connected service for the Azure Subscription that will have the storage account	Yes
Action	What action should be taken, `create` or `delete`	Yes	`create`
Resource Group	Resource group in which the storage account should be created	Yes
Location	Location of the resource group in Azure	Yes
Storage Account Name	Name of the storage account	Yes
Container Name	Name of the container within the storage account	Yes	""
Upload Directory	The directory from which files should be uploaded	Yes
SAS Token Start Time	When the SAS token should start. The value specified here is minus from now	Yes	1m
SAS Token Expiry Time	When the SAS token should expire.	Yes	1h

Actions

As can be seen from the parameters, there are two actions that can be specified:

create
delete

When using create the task will create the named Resource Group, the storage account and the container. If any of these resources already exist, they will be unmodified.

When using the delete, the task will remove the specified Resource Group. This is a very destructive operation because any other resources in that resource group will also be deleted. Use with caution.