Add Support to ABFS Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 (ADLS2) Protocol on Microsoft.Azure.Hooks

[luanmorenomaciel]

Description

Microsoft Azure has created a new Hadoop Filesystem compatible driver (ABFS) that employs a URI format to address files and directories more efficiently and performant for Big Data & Analytics use-cases.

As of now, Microsoft Azure offers three different ways to connect to its object storage system Azure Blob Storage, which are:

• WASB = allows you to use either a storage account access key or a shared access signature (SAS) (marked as legacy)

• Data Lake Storage Gen1 (ADLS1) = is an enterprise-wide hyper-scale repository for big data analytics workloads (to be retired on feb 29, 2024)

• Data Lake Storage Gen2 (ADLS2) = is a set of capabilities dedicated to big data analytics (the new standard)

Microsoft has deprecated the Windows Azure Storage Blob driver (WASB) for Azure Blob Storage in favor of the Azure Blob Filesystem driver (ABFS); see Access Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 and Blob Storage.

ABFS has numerous benefits over WASB; see Azure documentation on ABFS.

The current Microsoft Azure Provider on Apache Airflow supports the following hooks:

• WASB Hook

• Azure Data Lake Gen1 Hook

Because of the legacy of the (WASB) and retirement of the (ADLS1) it finds necessary to implement the new protocol (ABFS) for Azure Blob Storage for feature state compatibility and to be compliant to the new standard.

Use case/motivation

Due to the deprecation (WASB) and retirement (ADLS1) of the protocols, it's key to implement a new Hook that would allow access to the ABFS protocol over the Azure Blob Storage system.

There is also a multitude of use-cases that would benefit from this implementation, such as:

• Support for Faster Storage Access of Microsoft Azure Provider
• Seamless Integration with Astro Python SDK Standard for Native Transfer
• Enhancement of Metadata Support
• Compliant with New Standard Protocol (ABFS) Usage

Related issues

Related Issues & Stop Blockers:

• Add support for Azure Blob Storage astronomer/astro-sdk#905

Are you willing to submit a PR?

• Yes I am willing to submit a PR!

Code of Conduct

• I agree to follow this project's Code of Conduct

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[potiuk]

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[tatiana]

@kaxil should we consider this ticket closed, since #28262 was merged, or are there pending changes?

[potiuk]

@kaxil should we consider this ticket closed, since #28262 was merged, or are there pending changes?

@luanmorenomaciel -> possibly you are the best to comment here, since you created the original request. Is your original intention completed now with all the merged PRs? Can you please double-check it?

[eladkal]

I'm going to close this issue as completed. should something else is needed please open a new issue about the specific task needed