How to Mount an Azure File Share to Azure Container Instances with the Azure CLI and Terraform

One option to persist data from your Azure Container Instance is to mount a volume which will allow your to container to write data to external file storage.

Azure offers a service called Azure Files within an Azure Storage Account which is a fully managed file share solution hosted in Azure that uses the Service Message Block (SMB) protocol.

In this tutorial, we will cover two methods on how to create a Azure Container Instance and mount an Azure File Share within a Storage Account.

1. Using the Azure CLI
1. Using Terraform