azure_rm_storageblob doesn't allow to change the blob's access tier

[ppodgorsek]

SUMMARY

Currently, the azure_rm_storageblob module allows to upload a blob and that blob inherits the access tier of its container.

The Azure API allows to set a blob's access tier, it would therefore be useful to be able to set/override it on the blob itself too.
For example, a container could have a cool tier, while the blobs within it could be archived. (the containers cannot be assigned to the archive tier)

This would be useful in cases where blobs are used to back up data, such data is rarely read.

ISSUE TYPE

• Feature Idea

COMPONENT NAME

azure_rm_storageblob

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Below is an example of how this could look like:

- name: Upload backup file to storage container
  azure_rm_storageblob:
    client_id: "{{ azure_client_id }}"
    secret: "{{ azure_client_secret }}"
    subscription_id: "{{ backup_subscription_id }}"
    tenant: "{{ azure_tenant }}"
    resource_group: "{{ backup_resource_group }}"
    storage_account_name: "{{ backup_storage_account }}"
    container: "{{ backup_storage_container }}"
    blob: "{{ backup_archive_file }}"
    src: "{{ backup_archive_file_path }}"
    content_type: 'application/gzip'
    access_tier: "archive"
  tags:
    - backup
    - storage

[Fred-sun]

@ppodgorsek The SDK that azure_rm_storageblob relies on does not support 'access_tier' and cannot be added for the time being. Thank you!

[ppodgorsek]

@Fred-sun Thank you for your answer. I have a question to better understand this issue. I would assume there is only one SDK provided by Azure, or are there multiple versions depending on programming languages?

Terraform has been supporting this for a long time already, but I find it kind of overkill to introduce Terraform for such a mundane task. See lines 252 to 262 in https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-provider-azurerm/blob/main/internal/services/storage/storage_blob_resource.go