[NIFI-7677] Upgrade Azure Storage API to latest (v12) to support extra SPP

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Patch Available
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 1.11.4
• Component/s: Extensions
• Labels: azure cloud encryption sensitive
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Stijn IJzermans
• Created: 25/Jul/20 14:08
• Updated: 26/Oct/21 17:36

Description

To enable support for extra types of SPP (service principal providers) when connecting to storage, we need to upgrade the Azure storage dependencies. This is required for the improvement referred in NIFI-6615 and related to epic NIFI-5481.

From version 12 onwards, the Azure storage SDK's support the identity objects, and hence we open up support for new types of authentication such as:

• ManagedIdentityCredential
• EnvironmentCredential
• ClientSecretCredential
• ClientCertificateCredential

(Referred here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/java/api/overview/azure/identity-readme?view=azure-java-stable) 

Issue Links

• is duplicated by: NIFI-8323 Azure Managed Identity Support for AzureBlobStorage Processors
• is related to: NIFI-9338 Add Azure Blob processors using Azure Blob Storage client library v12 for Java
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #4430