Regardless of which specific Hadoop ecosystem application you are using, you can access data stored in WASB using the URL starting with the wasb:// prefix.

The URL structure is:

wasb://<container_name>@<storage_account_name>.blob.core.windows.net/dir/file

For example, to access a file called "testfile" located in a directory called "testdir", stored in the container called "testcontainer" on the account called "hortonworks", the URL is:

wasb://testcontainer@hortonworks.blob.core.windows.net/testdir/testfile

You can also use wasbs prefix to utilize SSL-encrypted HTTPS access:

wasbs://<container_name>@<storage_account_name>.blob.core.windows.net/dir/file

For example, the following Hadoop FileSystem shell commands demonstrate access to a storage account named myaccount and a container named mycontainer:

hadoop fs -ls wasb://mycontainer@myaccount.blob.core.windows.net/

hadoop fs -mkdir wasb://mycontainer@myaccount.blob.core.windows.net/testDir

hadoop fs -put testFile wasb://mycontainer@myaccount.blob.core.windows.net/testDir/testFile

hadoop fs -cat wasb://mycontainer@myaccount.blob.core.windows.net/testDir/testFile
test file content