11th November 2020
SFTP Azure – In under 3 minutes!
SFTP (SSH File Transfer Protocol – Secure FTP) allows transferring of files over a secure SSH connection.
Setting SFTP server up in Azure normally required a Virtual Machine (either Windows or Linux) to run the SFTP service.
SFTP Azure video
This video shows how to quickly spin up a SFTP Azure container instance to get a simple SFTP server up and running in Azure. This can be done in under 3 minutes using a Azure template. Data is stored in Azure Files which is backed by durable persistent storage.
This video will cover.
- Deploy SFTP Template to Azure
- Connect to SFTP Server using WinSCP
- Upload Files to SFTP
- View Data in Azure Files
- Firewall IP ranges
Link to template
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/samples/azure-samples/sftp-creation-template/sftp-on-azure/