Uploading file to Azure Blob storage from Elixir

Firstly, create a storage account and get a account name and a secondary access key by clicking on Manage Access Keys button.

After that, add a container for your files to be in. You can do it manually on Azure or with a code, for this example let’s create it manually and call it creatively test.

We are going to use an Erlang library erlazure by Dmitry Kataskin so add a dependency to you mix file.

  defp deps do
    [ { :erlazure, github: "dkataskin/erlazure" } ]
  end

Now, we firstly start the process (it doesn’t do any network communication) and pass this started process id to the actual request (this is where the network communication happens).

    account = 'your-storage-account-name'
    key = 'your-secondary-access-key'

    {:ok, pid} = :erlazure.start(account, key)
    :erlazure.put_block_blob(pid, 'test', 'name-of-image.jpg', File.read!("/path/to/the/photo.jpg"))

And your file is uploaded at https://storage-account-name.blob.core.windows.net/your-container/your-filename and you can use it from your website.