How to create NFS share on Azure Blob Storage

Quick steps to enable the NFS share in the Azure Storage account.

If you are using Linux file systems, be it as extended shares for your Linux VMs or as persistent storage for your Red Hat OpenShift workloads, they will be required to be compatible with Network File System (NFS) protocol.

NFS being cross-platform, offers high-performance sharing capabilities making it ideal for workloads where latency needs to be minimal.

Creating NFS container

First, ensure you you are selected Premium SKU and account type as File shares

Complete the storage account creation wizard. Once the resource is created, create the share.

You will see the share created under File shares.

Connecting to NFS Share

The NFS share we created can only be accessed from virtual network it is in. So we will go ahead an…