Microsoft Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 Connection

The Microsoft Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 connection type enables the ADLS gen2 Integrations.

Authenticating to Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2

Currently, there are three ways to connect to Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 using Airflow.

  1. Use token credentials i.e. add specific credentials (client_id, secret, tenant) and subscription id to the Airflow connection.

  2. Use a Connection String i.e. add connection string to connection_string in the Airflow connection.

  3. Fallback on DefaultAzureCredential. This includes a mechanism to try different options to authenticate: Managed System Identity, environment variables, authentication through Azure CLI, etc.

Only one authorization method can be used at a time. If you need to manage multiple credentials or keys then you should configure multiple connections.

Default Connection IDs

All hooks and operators related to Microsoft Azure Blob Storage use azure_data_lake_default by default.

Configuring the Connection

Login (optional)

Specify the login used for azure blob storage. For use with Shared Key Credential and SAS Token authentication. It can be left out to fall back on DefaultAzureCredential.

Password (optional)

Specify the password used for azure blob storage. For use with Active Directory (token credential) and shared key authentication. It can be left out to fall back on DefaultAzureCredential.

Host (optional)

Specify the account url for anonymous public read, Active Directory, shared access key authentication. It can be left out to fall back on DefaultAzureCredential.

Extra (optional)

Specify the extra parameters (as json dictionary) that can be used in Azure connection. The following parameters are all optional:

  • tenant_id: Specify the tenant to use. Needed for Active Directory (token) authentication. It can be left out to fall back on DefaultAzureCredential.

  • connection_string: Connection string for use with connection string authentication. It can be left out to fall back on DefaultAzureCredential.

When specifying the connection in environment variable you should specify it using URI syntax.

Note that all components of the URI should be URL-encoded.

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