Azure Blob Storage Plugin for Search Toolkit

Azure Blob Storage backend for mistralai-search-toolkit.

This plugin implements the Search Toolkit's ObjectStorage interface, enabling the ingestion pipeline to load files directly from Azure Blob Storage.

Installation

pip install mistralai-search-toolkit-storage-azure

Or as an optional dependency of the core package:

pip install mistralai-search-toolkit[storage-azure]

Quick Start: Load Files from Azure in Ingestion Pipeline

1. Upload a File to Azure Blob Storage

import asyncio
from mistralai.search.toolkit.plugins.storage.azure import AzureBlobStorage


async def upload_file():
    storage = AzureBlobStorage(
        container_name="documents",
        account_name="your-account",
    )

    # Upload a file
    with open("document.pdf", "rb") as f:
        data = f.read()

    await storage.put(key="documents/document.pdf", data=data)


asyncio.run(upload_file())

2. Load Files from Azure in Ingestion Pipeline

import asyncio
import os
from mistralai.search.toolkit.ingestion.loaders import FileLoader
from mistralai.search.toolkit.ingestion.pipelines import Pipeline
from mistralai.search.toolkit.ingestion.text_splitters import CharacterTextSplitter
from mistralai.search.toolkit.embedders import MistralEmbedder, MODEL_1024_EMBEDDING
from mistralai.client import Mistral
from mistralai.search.toolkit.plugins.storage.azure import AzureBlobStorage
from mistralai.search.toolkit.plugins.vespa import VespaClientConfig
from vespa_app import app


async def ingest_from_azure():
    # Create Azure storage factory
    def azure_storage_factory():
        return AzureBlobStorage(
            container_name="documents",
            account_name="your-account",
        )

    # Create FileLoader backed by Azure
    file_loader = FileLoader(storage_factory=azure_storage_factory)

    # Create ingestion pipeline
    mistral_client = Mistral(api_key=os.environ.get("MISTRAL_API_KEY"))
    vespa_config = VespaClientConfig(
        endpoint=os.environ.get("VESPA_ENDPOINT", "http://localhost:8080"),
    )
    vector_store = app.get_search_index(vespa_config, collection_name="articles")

    pipeline = Pipeline(
        loader=file_loader,
        text_splitter=CharacterTextSplitter(chunk_size=512),
        embedder=MistralEmbedder(client=mistral_client, model_name=MODEL_1024_EMBEDDING),
        stores=vector_store,
    )

    # Ingest documents from Azure
    num_chunks = await pipeline.run(
        documents=[
            "documents/document1.pdf",
            "documents/document2.pdf",
        ]
    )

    print(f"Indexed {num_chunks} chunks")


asyncio.run(ingest_from_azure())

Configuration

Basic Setup

storage = AzureBlobStorage(
    container_name="documents",
    account_name="your-account",
)

Using Connection String

storage = AzureBlobStorage(
    container_name="documents",
    connection_string="DefaultEndpointsProtocol=https;AccountName=...;AccountKey=...",
)

Using Account Key

storage = AzureBlobStorage(
    container_name="documents",
    account_name="your-account",
    account_key="your-key",
)

Using Managed Identity

from azure.identity.aio import DefaultAzureCredential

storage = AzureBlobStorage(
    container_name="documents",
    account_name="your-account",
    credential=DefaultAzureCredential(),
)

Local Development

For local testing, use Azurite:

docker run -p 10000:10000 mcr.microsoft.com/azure-storage/azurite azurite-blob --blobHost 0.0.0.0

Configure to use local emulator:

storage = AzureBlobStorage(
    container_name="documents",
    connection_string="DefaultEndpointsProtocol=http;AccountName=devstoreaccount1;AccountKey=<key>;BlobEndpoint=http://127.0.0.1:10000/devstoreaccount1/;",
)

License

This plugin is licensed under the Apache License 2.0.

Support

For Search Toolkit issues, refer to the Search Toolkit documentation.

For Azure Blob Storage documentation, visit Azure Blob Storage Docs.