Azure Storage Fuse

Blobfuse is an open source project developed to provide a virtual filesystem backed by the Azure Storage. It uses the libfuse open source library (fuse3) to communicate with the Linux FUSE kernel module, and implements the filesystem operations using the Azure Storage REST APIs. BlobFuse lets Linux workloads use Azure Blob Storage like a local file system for several scenarios, including AI/ML training and checkpointing, HPC simulations, Kubernetes stateful workloads, big data analytics/preprocessing, and large-scale backup and archiving. BlobFuse supports standard file operations with caching, offers health monitoring and blob filtering, and can preload containers or folders into the local cache for faster access.