Azure Blob Storage Plugin for Carbone On-premise

Store your templates and generated documents into Azure Blob Storage.

Requirements

Install Node 18 Create 2 Azure Blob Storage containers to store templates and renders (generated documents). Create an Azure Storage account and obtain the access keys.

Setup

Create a plugin directory in the same directory as the carbone-ee binary.

mkdir plugin

Enter into the plugin directory

cd plugin

Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/carboneio/carbone-ee-plugin-azure-blob-storage.git

Install Npm Packages

npm install

Provide Azure Blob Storage configurations, as environment variables:

Authorization with Shared Key (for local developpemen not recommended for Container app production deployement)

AZURE_STORAGE_ACCOUNT=STORAGE_ACCOUNT_NAME
AZURE_STORAGE_KEY=STORAGE_ACCOUNT_KEY
CONTAINER_TEMPLATES=STORAGE_CONTAINER_TEMPLATES
CONTAINER_RENDERS=STORAGE_RENDERS_CONTAINER

Authorization with System managed Identity

AZURE_STORAGE_ACCOUNT=STORAGE_ACCOUNT_NAME
CONTAINER_TEMPLATES=STORAGE_CONTAINER_TEMPLATES
CONTAINER_RENDERS=STORAGE_RENDERS_CONTAINER

Authorization with User managed Identity

AZURE_STORAGE_ACCOUNT=STORAGE_ACCOUNT_NAME
AZURE_MANAGED_IDENTITY_CLIENT_ID="Client ID of user_assigned_identity
CONTAINER_TEMPLATES=STORAGE_CONTAINER_TEMPLATES
CONTAINER_RENDERS=STORAGE_RENDERS_CONTAINER

If you are using Carbone Docker, you have to mount the plugin directory as a volume into the container, and you have to define environment variables for Azure Blob Storage credentials

Command for Docker CLI:

docker run --name carbone -p 4000:4000 -e LANG=C.UTF-8 -v ./plugin:/app/plugin -e AZURE_STORAGE_ACCOUNT=<STORAGE_ACCOUNT_NAME> -e AZURE_STORAGE_KEY=<STORAGE_ACCOUNT_KEY> -e CONTAINER_TEMPLATES='templates' -e CONTAINER_RENDERS='renders' carbone/carbone-ee

File for Docker-compose:

version: "3.9"
services:
  carbone:
    image: carbone/carbone-ee:latest
    platform: linux/amd64
    ports:
      - "4000:4000"
    volumes:
      - ./plugin:/app/plugin
    environment:
      - LANG=C.UTF-8
      - AZURE_STORAGE_ACCOUNT=STORAGE_ACCOUNT_NAME
      - AZURE_STORAGE_KEY=STORAGE_ACCOUNT_KEY
      - CONTAINER_TEMPLATES=STORAGE_CONTAINER_TEMPLATES
      - CONTAINER_RENDERS=STORAGE_RENDERS_CONTAINER

Finally start the Carbone Server, and the following logs will appear. If the connection fails or something goes wrong, an error message will be logged.