The Azure Blob Storage Connector can be configured using the Aspire Admin UI. It requires the following entities to be created:

• Credential
• Connection
• Connector
• Seed

Create Credential 

1. On the Aspire Admin UI go to the credentials page
2. All existing credentials will be listed. Click on the new button
3. Enter the new credential description.
4. Select Azure Blob Storage from the Type list.
   1. Storage Connection StringAccount Key: Azure Storage Connection StringAccount Key.

Create Connection 

1. On the Aspire Admin UI, go to the connections page
2. All existing connections will be listed. Click on the new button
3. Enter the new connection description. 
4. Select Azure Blob Storage from the Type list.
   1. Base Path: All the seeds will be prefixed with this value to form the full URL.
   2. Storage Connection String: Azure Storage Connection String. Set the value of 'AccountKey' to '${accountKey}'. '${accountKey}' will be replaced with the value from the Credentials.
   3. Index Containers: Select if containers are to be indexed.
   4. Scan Recursively: Select if a sub-folder are is to be scanned.
   5. Scan Excluded Items: If selected, the scanner will scan sub items of container items that have been excluded by a pattern (because it matches an exclude pattern or because it doesn't match an include pattern)
   6. Include patterns: Specify regex display URL patterns to include
   7. Exclude patterns: Specify regex display URL patterns to exclude

Create Connector Instance

For the creation of the Connector object using the Admin UI, check this page.

Create Seed 

1. On the Aspire Admin UI, go to the seeds page
2. All existing seed existing seeds will be listed. Click on the new button
3. Enter the new seed description.
4. Select Azure Blob Storage from the Type list.
   1. Collect from specific azure blob container url: Azure Blob Container URL which will serve as the start of the crawl. Folders and documents underneath this URL will be automatically fetched and sent to the search engine, along with metadata and ACLs. It is recommended that the URL is encoded.
      1. Add More Azure Blob Containers: Enable this to use extra blob containers
   2.  Path: Path to the element to be crawled.