Setup instructions
Step 1 - Select connection method
First decide whether to connect gather360 to your Azure Blob Storage container directly, using an SSH tunnel, or using Azure Private Link.
Connect directly
gather360 connects directly to your Azure Blob Storage container. This is the simplest connection method.
To connect directly, create a firewall rule to allow access to gather360 IPs.
Connect using Private Link (BETA)
IMPORTANT: You must have a gather360 Enteprise plan to use Azure Private Link.
Azure Private Link allows Virtual Networks (VNets) and Azure-hosted or on-premises services to communicate with one another without exposing traffic to the public internet. Learn more in Microsoft's Azure Private Link documentation.
- Contact our support team and they will assit you with your Azure Private Link setup
Connect using SSH (TLS optional) (BETA)
gather360 connects to a separate server in your network that provides an SSH tunnel to your Azure Blob Storage container. You must connect through SSH if your container is in an inaccessible subnet on a virtual network.
To connect using SSH, create a firewall rule to allow access to your SSH tunnel server's IP address.
Before you proceed to the next step, you must follow our SSH connection instructions to give gather360 access to your SSH tunnel. If you want gather360 to tunnel SSH over TLS, follow Azure's TLS setup instructions to enforce a minimum TLS required version on your namespace.
Step 2 - Create a Shared Access Signature in Azure