# Setup Snap2Object

###  Overview
Once the WEKA cluster is created in Azure we will now create a blob and connect to the WEKA cluster.  This is the location WEKA will store snapshots data.  These snapshops will be later used to restore to a new cluster.

**Prerequisites**

- Admin Access in Azure

### Azure Setup
We need to create a remote Object Store in Azure to connect to WEKA.

1.  Logon to the **Azure Portal** and start **Cloud Shell**

![Cloud Shell](./images/cloud_shell.png)

2.  Azure Blob Storage containers reside within a storage account. So we need to create a new storage account.

```bash
az storage account create --name $STORAGE_ACCOUNT_NAME --resource-group $RG --location $LOCATION --sku Standard_LRS
```

3.  Now, create the container within your storage account. This is the equivalent of an S3 bucket in Azure.

```bash
az storage container create --name $CONTAINER_NAME --account-name $STORAGE_ACCOUNT_NAME 
```

4.  Retrive your secret key
[Warning] This output may compromise security by showing the following secrets.  Only do this in a lab environemnt.

```bash
az storage account keys list --account-name $STORAGE_ACCOUNT_NAME  --query "[0].{keyName:keyName, value:value}" --output json
```

![Secret Key](./images/azure_secret.png)

5. SSH into on of your WEKA Backends.  The location of the .pem file is in your Terraform output
```bash
ssh -i $SSH_KEY.pem weka@$BACKEND_PUBLIC_IP
```

### WEKA Setup
We will now connect the Azure blob to WEKA for remote Snapshots.  


1. Add a remote bucket to your WEKA cluster. You will need the following vaules from the previous steps

    - STORAGE_ACCOUNT_NAME
    - CONTAINER_NAME
    - STORAGE_ACCOUNT_ACCESS_KEY

```bash
weka fs tier s3 add azure-obs --site local --obs-name default-local --obs-type AZURE --hostname $STORAGE_ACCOUNT_NAME.blob.core.windows.net --port 443 --bucket $CONTAINER_NAME --access-key-id $STORAGE_ACCOUNT_NAME --secret-key $STORAGE_ACCOUNT_ACCESS_KEY --protocol https --auth-method AWSSignature4
```

2. Attatch the buckt to your **default** file system 

```bash
weka fs tier s3 attach default azure-obs --mode remote
```