How To Download Azure BLOB Storage Using Azure PowerShell

In this article, we are going to see the steps required to download Azure BLOB Storage contents from the container using PowerShell script. You can access the Azure resources using Azure PowerShell. Azure PowerShell contains sets of modules that provide multiple cmdlets to manage Azure with Windows PowerShell. You can build automation scripts with Azure resources.

Prerequisite

Before you begin to utilize PowerShell to oversee the Azure PowerShell, ensure that the Azure PowerShell has been installed. If not installed, here is an article How to install Azure PowerShell module. You need to do this only once for each computer from which you are running Azure PowerShell commands.

Step 1

Connect to Azure Portal using Connect-AzureRmAccount cmdlet.

Connect-AzureRmAccount

Step 2

We need to get the Azure Storage context to access the storage content from the Azure portal. You can get the context using New-AzureStorageContext cmdlets. The required parameters are,

You can get the connection string from the Azure portal. Open your Azure portal and select Storage account from the side menu. It will look like the snapshot below.

Copy the connection string. It will look like the below snapshot.

Assign connection string in a variable and pass the value to the -ConnectionString parameter,

Step 3

To get BLOBS in a container, use Get-AzureStorageBlob cmdlet. The required parameters are,