# Plugin to store uploads into Azure blob storage
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-to-store-uploads-into-azure-blob-storage/74091
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [November 15, 2017, 8:55am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-to-store-uploads-into-azure-blob-storage/74091 "2017-11-15T08:55:20Z")
**Posts on this page:** 15
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@schungx](https://meta.discourse.org/u/schungx)
#### Post date: [November 15, 2017, 8:55am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-to-store-uploads-into-azure-blob-storage/74091/1 "2017-11-15T08:55:20Z")
I’m wondering if there is a plugin to save uploaded files into Azure blob storage. Probably not…
If so, any pointers as to what plugin template I can study to write something like this?
Amazon S3 support is baked into the core instead of being a plugin, so I’m not sure if it will be easy to do in a plugin.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2018, 7:37am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-to-store-uploads-into-azure-blob-storage/74091/4 "2018-01-12T07:37:24Z")
@maja can you update the topic here with your progress?
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### Author:  [@maja](https://meta.discourse.org/u/maja)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2018, 12:57pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-to-store-uploads-into-azure-blob-storage/74091/6 "2018-01-14T12:57:16Z")
I have created a repository with what I’ve done in previous week: [GitHub - majakomel/discourse-azure-blob-storage: A Discourse plugin for storing images and files in azure blob storage · GitHub](https://github.com/majakomel/discourse-azure-blob-storage). Basic functionality is there, apart from `purge_tombstone`, also there seems to be an issue with avatars that I need to fix.
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### Author:  [@maja](https://meta.discourse.org/u/maja)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2018, 9:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-to-store-uploads-into-azure-blob-storage/74091/7 "2018-01-17T21:18:37Z")
Plugin now works with Azure CDN as well. It would be great to get some feedback, if someone feels like testing it. Plugin is activated as soon as it’s installed (enable setting doesn’t do anything yet). It can be configured under Admin → Settings → Plugins, account name, access key and container name are required.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2018, 10:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-to-store-uploads-into-azure-blob-storage/74091/8 "2018-01-26T22:16:18Z")
@schungx / @SimonWu I was wondering if you would have a bit of time to test out the new plugin by @maja.
We really want to get azure blob storage working well and this is the first time we have a plugin 🍰
@maja we should pull out a dedicated topic for this in the #Customization > Plugin category that documents how to use, concerns etc.
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### Author:  [@SimonWu](https://meta.discourse.org/u/SimonWu)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2018, 12:14am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-to-store-uploads-into-azure-blob-storage/74091/9 "2018-01-27T00:14:31Z")
Sure, I will give a try.
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### Author:  [@schungx](https://meta.discourse.org/u/schungx)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2018, 1:39am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-to-store-uploads-into-azure-blob-storage/74091/10 "2018-01-27T01:39:04Z")
Love to. I’ll install it when I get to sit at my desk.
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### Author:  [@SimonWu](https://meta.discourse.org/u/SimonWu)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2018, 2:55am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-to-store-uploads-into-azure-blob-storage/74091/11 "2018-01-27T02:55:14Z")
It throws error when I try to upload a picture in post.
```plaintext
NameError (undefined local variable or method `locked_by_id' for #
Did you mean? locked?)
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/gems/activemodel-5.1.4/lib/active_model/attribute_methods.rb:432:in `method_missing'
```
Stacktrace
```plaintext
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/gems/activemodel-5.1.4/lib/active_model/attribute_methods.rb:432:in `method_missing'
/var/www/discourse/app/models/post.rb:739:in `locked?'
/var/www/discourse/app/serializers/post_serializer.rb:364:in `include_locked?'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/gems/active_model_serializers-0.8.3/lib/active_model/serializer.rb:374:in `include?'
(eval):64:in `_fast_attributes'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/gems/active_model_serializers-0.8.3/lib/active_model/serializer.rb:467:in `rescue in attributes'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/gems/active_model_serializers-0.8.3/lib/active_model/serializer.rb:455:in `attributes'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/gems/active_model_serializers-0.8.3/lib/active_model/serializer.rb:479:in `_serializable_hash'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/gems/active_model_serializers-0.8.3/lib/active_model/serializer.rb:361:in `serializable_hash'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/gems/active_model_serializers-0.8.3/lib/active_model/serializer.rb:349:in `as_json'
/var/www/discourse/app/serializers/post_stream_serializer_mixin.rb:31:in `block in posts'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/gems/activerecord-5.1.4/lib/active_record/relation/delegation.rb:39:in `each'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/gems/activerecord-5.1.4/lib/active_record/relation/delegation.rb:39:in `each'
/var/www/discourse/app/serializers/post_stream_serializer_mixin.rb:24:in `map'
/var/www/discourse/app/serializers/post_stream_serializer_mixin.rb:24:in `posts'
/var/www/discourse/app/serializers/post_stream_serializer_mixin.rb:13:in `post_stream'
(eval):3:in `_fast_attributes'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/gems/active_model_serializers-0.8.3/lib/active_model/serializer.rb:467:in `rescue in attributes'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/gems/active_model_serializers-0.8.3/lib/active_model/serializer.rb:455:in `attributes'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/gems/active_model_serializers-0.8.3/lib/active_model/serializer.rb:479:in `_serializable_hash'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/gems/active_model_serializers-0.8.3/lib/active_model/serializer.rb:361:in `serializable_hash'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/gems/active_model_serializers-0.8.3/lib/active_model/serializer.rb:349:in `as_json'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/gems/activesupport-5.1.4/lib/active_support/json/encoding.rb:33:in `encode'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/gems/activesupport-5.1.4/lib/active_support/json/encoding.rb:20:in `encode'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/gems/activesupport-5.1.4/lib/active_support/core_ext/object/json.rb:39:in `to_json'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/gems/active_model_serializers-0.8.3/lib/active_model/serializer.rb:333:in `to_json'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/gems/multi_json-1.12.1/lib/multi_json/adapters/oj.rb:21:in `dump'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/gems/multi_json-1.12.1/lib/multi_json/adapters/oj.rb:21:in `dump'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/gems/multi_json-1.12.1/lib/multi_json/adapter.rb:25:in `dump'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/gems/multi_json-1.12.1/lib/multi_json.rb:139:in `dump'
/var/www/discourse/app/controllers/application_controller.rb:365:in `render_json_dump'
/var/www/discourse/app/controllers/topics_controller.rb:747:in `block (2 levels) in perform_show_response'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/gems/actionpack-5.1.4/lib/action_controller/metal/mime_responds.rb:201:in `respond_to'
/var/www/discourse/app/controllers/topics_controller.rb:739:in `perform_show_response'
/var/www/discourse/app/controllers/topics_controller.rb:116:in `show'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/gems/actionpack-5.1.4/lib/action_controller/metal/basic_implicit_render.rb:4:in `send_action'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/gems/actionpack-5.1.4/lib/abstract_controller/base.rb:186:in `process_action'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/gems/actionpack-5.1.4/lib/action_controller/metal/rendering.rb:30:in `process_action'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/gems/actionpack-5.1.4/lib/abstract_controller/callbacks.rb:20:in `block in process_action'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/gems/activesupport-5.1.4/lib/active_support/callbacks.rb:131:in `run_callbacks'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/gems/actionpack-5.1.4/lib/abstract_controller/callbacks.rb:19:in `process_action'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/gems/actionpack-5.1.4/lib/action_controller/metal/rescue.rb:20:in `process_action'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/gems/actionpack-5.1.4/lib/action_controller/metal/instrumentation.rb:32:in `block in process_action'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/gems/activesupport-5.1.4/lib/active_support/notifications.rb:166:in `block in instrument'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/gems/activesupport-5.1.4/lib/active_support/notifications/instrumenter.rb:21:in `instrument'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/gems/activesupport-5.1.4/lib/active_support/notifications.rb:166:in `instrument'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/gems/actionpack-5.1.4/lib/action_controller/metal/instrumentation.rb:30:in `process_action'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/gems/actionpack-5.1.4/lib/action_controller/metal/params_wrapper.rb:252:in `process_action'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/gems/activerecord-5.1.4/lib/active_record/railties/controller_runtime.rb:22:in `process_action'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/gems/actionpack-5.1.4/lib/abstract_controller/base.rb:124:in `process'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/gems/actionview-5.1.4/lib/action_view/rendering.rb:30:in `process'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/gems/rack-mini-profiler-0.10.7/lib/mini_profiler/profiling_methods.rb:76:in `block in profile_method'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/gems/actionpack-5.1.4/lib/action_controller/metal.rb:189:in `dispatch'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/gems/actionpack-5.1.4/lib/action_controller/metal.rb:253:in `dispatch'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/gems/actionpack-5.1.4/lib/action_dispatch/routing/route_set.rb:49:in `dispatch'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/gems/actionpack-5.1.4/lib/action_dispatch/routing/route_set.rb:31:in `serve'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/gems/actionpack-5.1.4/lib/action_dispatch/journey/router.rb:50:in `block in serve'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/gems/actionpack-5.1.4/lib/action_dispatch/journey/router.rb:33:in `each'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/gems/actionpack-5.1.4/lib/action_dispatch/journey/router.rb:33:in `serve'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/gems/actionpack-5.1.4/lib/action_dispatch/routing/route_set.rb:834:in `call'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/gems/rack-protection-2.0.0/lib/rack/protection/frame_options.rb:31:in `call'
/var/www/discourse/lib/middleware/omniauth_bypass_middleware.rb:24:in `call'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/gems/rack-2.0.3/lib/rack/conditional_get.rb:25:in `call'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/gems/rack-2.0.3/lib/rack/head.rb:12:in `call'
/var/www/discourse/lib/middleware/anonymous_cache.rb:147:in `call'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/gems/rack-2.0.3/lib/rack/session/abstract/id.rb:232:in `context'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/gems/rack-2.0.3/lib/rack/session/abstract/id.rb:226:in `call'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/gems/actionpack-5.1.4/lib/action_dispatch/middleware/cookies.rb:613:in `call'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/gems/actionpack-5.1.4/lib/action_dispatch/middleware/callbacks.rb:26:in `block in call'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/gems/activesupport-5.1.4/lib/active_support/callbacks.rb:97:in `run_callbacks'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/gems/actionpack-5.1.4/lib/action_dispatch/middleware/callbacks.rb:24:in `call'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/gems/actionpack-5.1.4/lib/action_dispatch/middleware/debug_exceptions.rb:59:in `call'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/gems/actionpack-5.1.4/lib/action_dispatch/middleware/show_exceptions.rb:31:in `call'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/gems/logster-1.2.9/lib/logster/middleware/reporter.rb:31:in `call'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/gems/railties-5.1.4/lib/rails/rack/logger.rb:36:in `call_app'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/gems/railties-5.1.4/lib/rails/rack/logger.rb:26:in `call'
/var/www/discourse/config/initializers/100-quiet_logger.rb:16:in `call'
/var/www/discourse/config/initializers/100-silence_logger.rb:29:in `call'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/gems/actionpack-5.1.4/lib/action_dispatch/middleware/remote_ip.rb:79:in `call'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/gems/actionpack-5.1.4/lib/action_dispatch/middleware/request_id.rb:25:in `call'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/gems/rack-2.0.3/lib/rack/method_override.rb:22:in `call'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/gems/actionpack-5.1.4/lib/action_dispatch/middleware/executor.rb:12:in `call'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/gems/rack-2.0.3/lib/rack/sendfile.rb:111:in `call'
/var/www/discourse/plugins/discourse-prometheus/lib/middleware/metrics.rb:17:in `call'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/gems/rack-mini-profiler-0.10.7/lib/mini_profiler/profiler.rb:171:in `call'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/gems/message_bus-2.1.2/lib/message_bus/rack/middleware.rb:63:in `call'
/var/www/discourse/lib/middleware/request_tracker.rb:138:in `call'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/gems/railties-5.1.4/lib/rails/engine.rb:522:in `call'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/gems/railties-5.1.4/lib/rails/railtie.rb:185:in `public_send'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/gems/railties-5.1.4/lib/rails/railtie.rb:185:in `method_missing'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/gems/rack-2.0.3/lib/rack/urlmap.rb:68:in `block in call'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/gems/rack-2.0.3/lib/rack/urlmap.rb:53:in `each'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/gems/rack-2.0.3/lib/rack/urlmap.rb:53:in `call'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/gems/unicorn-5.4.0/lib/unicorn/http_server.rb:606:in `process_client'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/gems/unicorn-5.4.0/lib/unicorn/http_server.rb:701:in `worker_loop'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/gems/unicorn-5.4.0/lib/unicorn/http_server.rb:549:in `spawn_missing_workers'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/gems/unicorn-5.4.0/lib/unicorn/http_server.rb:142:in `start'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/gems/unicorn-5.4.0/bin/unicorn:126:in `'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/bin/unicorn:23:in `load'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/bin/unicorn:23:in `'
```
@maja, could you help?
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2018, 2:55am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-to-store-uploads-into-azure-blob-storage/74091/12 "2018-01-27T02:55:51Z")
Looks like your code is out of date, do you have latest Discourse version?
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### Author:  [@SimonWu](https://meta.discourse.org/u/SimonWu)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2018, 3:03am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-to-store-uploads-into-azure-blob-storage/74091/13 "2018-01-27T03:03:57Z")
I just re-provision the image for installing plugin. I think the version is latest.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2018, 3:07am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-to-store-uploads-into-azure-blob-storage/74091/14 "2018-01-27T03:07:39Z")
The reference in the error is to a new feature @eviltrout added today.
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### Author:  [@SimonWu](https://meta.discourse.org/u/SimonWu)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2018, 3:08am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-to-store-uploads-into-azure-blob-storage/74091/15 "2018-01-27T03:08:06Z")
Lucky me 🙂
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2018, 3:17am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-to-store-uploads-into-azure-blob-storage/74091/16 "2018-01-27T03:17:51Z")
I still suspect your DB or code is out of date unless you can repro this on [try.discourse.org](http://try.discourse.org)
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### Author:  [@SimonWu](https://meta.discourse.org/u/SimonWu)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2018, 4:00am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-to-store-uploads-into-azure-blob-storage/74091/17 "2018-01-27T04:00:45Z")
The issue get resolved after update the DB.
@maja The Azure blob storage plugin works fine for me now. Thanks a lot.
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### Author:  [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2018, 8:53am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-to-store-uploads-into-azure-blob-storage/74091/18 "2018-02-23T08:53:23Z")
> [@Azure Blob Storage Plugin](https://meta.discourse.org/t/azure-blob-storage-plugin/79392):
>
> [discourse-azure-blob-storage](https://github.com/discourse/discourse-azure-blob-storage) floppy_diskI have created the Azure Blob Storage plugin as part of my [Outreachy](https://www.outreachy.org/) internship with Discourse. It allows storing uploads into the [Azure Blob storage](https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/blobs/). Azure account If you don’t have an Azure account yet, [create one for free](https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free/) In your Microsoft Azure portal, go to Storage account and add a new account - make sure to select Blob storage under Account kind Go over to your newly created storage account and find Containers in the settings. Add a container i…