Setup Microsoft Azure data store

Challo stores the content of your tracks in a blob container of a storage account you provide.

Microsoft provide a number of storage account types. Challo requires an account type that supports the Blob service, see: Azure storage account overview.

This article assumes you are using a general-purpose v2 storage account.

To create a new storage account in Microsoft Azure follow the steps in: Azure—Create a general-purpose storage account. Challo requires that you set all of the following:

• Storage account name, for Challo to reference it.
• Secure transfer required to Enabled
• Access Tier to Hot

To create a new blob container: see Azure—Create a blob in object storage.

Important:

• To enable support for file version history you have to Turn on versioning for blobs—see: Azure—Enable and manage blob versioning.
• Currently, if you migrate to another datastore, previous versions of files do not migrate and are deleted from the original store.

With an appropriate storage account and blob container (see: Azure Configuration), to configure Challo:

1. From the menu, click Tenant settings
   
   
2. Click Data Storage
3. In the Type drop down, choose Azure
   Complete the configuration for your storage account as follows:

    

   Input field	Description
   Account Name	The storage account name in your Azure account (See:Storage account).
   Account Key	To find your account key, see: Azure—Manage storage account settings.
   Container Name	The name of the blob container in the Blobs section of your storage account (See: Blob Container).

4. Click Update

For an overview of what Challo stores in your data storage account see Setting up Challo.