Linux versions of many Microsoft software products are supported and are available through the “Linux Software Repository for Microsoft Products” at https://packages.microsoft.com.

Unfortunately, the BlobFuse installation via the apt package repository for Microsoft products is not available for Debian. It’s unclear why this significant omission occurred—leaving Debian out of the loop.

Below are steps tailored for Debian 11, which should also be applicable to Debian 12.

Step 1 : Install Dependencies

sudo apt-get install pkg-config libfuse-dev cmake libcurl4-gnutls-dev libgnutls28-dev uuid-dev libgcrypt20-dev libboost-all-dev gcc g++ -y

Step 2 : Download Blobfuse directory from Github

wget https://github.com/Azure/azure-storage-fuse/releases/download/blobfuse2-2.2.0/blobfuse2-2.2.0-Debian-11.0.x86_64.deb

Step 3 : Extract install using dpkg

sudo dpkg -i blobfuse2-2.2.0-Debian-11.0.x86_64.deb

Step 4 : Check Blobfuse2 version

blobfuse2 -v

Step 5 : Create blobfuse cache directory

sudo mkdir /mnt/blobfuse-cache

Step 6: Create blobfuse directory for mounting with Azure Blob Container

sudo mkdir /mnt/azure-blob-container

Step 7 : Create configuration file (DO NOT USE sudo)

vi /home/myuser/config.yaml

Step 8: Complete the config.yaml setting using this structure

allow-other: true

logging:
  type: syslog
  level: log_debug

components:
  - libfuse
  - file_cache
  - attr_cache
  - azstorage

libfuse:
  attribute-expiration-sec: 120
  entry-expiration-sec: 120
  negative-entry-expiration-sec: 240

file_cache:
  path: /mnt/blobfuse-cache
  timeout-sec: 120
  max-size-mb: 4096

attr_cache:
  timeout-sec: 7200

azstorage:
  type:block
  account-name: your-azure-azure-blob-name
  account-key: your-azure-blob-storage-key
  container: your-container-in-azure-blob-storage

Step 9 : mount the Azure Blob Container with local VM directory

sudo blobfuse2 /mnt/azure-blob-container/ --config-file=/home/myuser/config.yaml

Done.

Troubleshoot

Case 1 : If you need to unmount, you can use this script

fusermount -u /mnt/azure-blob-container

Case 2: If You cannot create directory, make sure your Azure Storage is Hierarchical namespace (HNS) enabled and modify the .yaml file. Replace type:block with type:adls

...
azstorage:
    type:adls
...

Case 3 : Your disk is full because of Blobfuse log data ?

Try to change Blobfuse log file configuration using rotate.