Enable static website for storage account

[l3ender]

SUMMARY

It doesn't appear there is a way to enable the "static website" feature of a storage account.

ISSUE TYPE

• Feature Idea

COMPONENT NAME

plugins/modules/azure_rm_storageaccount.py

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

The azure cli equivalent of this is az storage blob service-properties. It's non-intuitively named under storage "blob", but these appear to be settings specific for the storage "account".

[paultaiton]

I can't commit to this issue as I've already got a lot on my plate currently, however I had some relevant feedback.

The specific tunable is part of the az storage blob cli sub-command because in the Python SDK it is part of the azure-storage-blob package ( https://pypi.org/project/azure-storage-blob/ , https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/developer/python/sdk/storage/storage-blob-readme?view=storage-py-v12 ) and is part of the data plane, not the management plane. The Ansible module that corresponds to this kind of operation is azure_rm_storageblob . The storageblob module does not currently have the ability to tune containers for static websites, however it is definitely the place for it to be added.

[l3ender]

Thanks for the detail, Paul. I plan to pick this up next week.

How would you suggest modifying azure_rm_storageblob for this feature? The module currently has blob container name as a required field, but modifying service properties can be done on a storage account with no containers.

[paultaiton]

storageblob may not be the best place. It's definitely part of the same SDK package, but it may make sense to make a new module, something like azure_rm_storageaccount_staticwebsite that will instantiate it. I thought the property was container level, not account level.
It could be added to the storageaccount module, however that one is already REALLY complex, so I'd personally go for making a new one specific to staticwebsite. You can re-use the azure-storage-blob from module_utils.

[l3ender]

I started looking at implementing this feature (more generically, supporting service properties for a storage account), but I ran into dependency troubles due to the azure-storage package being deprecated and replaced by separate/different components (see 0.37.0 release notes).

Due to this I'd like to wait until dependency packages have been updated (#130). After that I will pick this effort up.

cc @Fred-sun

[l3ender]

I've raised #878 to add this feature.