As I see in the documentation, Azure using SMB protocol for access a data:

Azure Files can be mounted either via SMB 2.1 and SMB 3.0. For connections coming from clients on-premises or in other Azure regions, Azure Files will reject SMB 2.1 (or SMB 3.0 without encryption). If secure transfer required is enabled for a storage account, Azure Files will only allow connections using SMB 3.0 with encryption.

Kubernetes do not support SMB directly, but has support of special type of volumes - AzureFile, which will provide a SMB configuration automatically for you.

Next, for mount a storage, you need to:

1. Install packages to your nodes: yum -y install cifs-utils. If you using Debian-like distribs like Ubuntu, check how to install that packages in your OS (probably, they have same names).

2. No, you need to:

   Obtain an Microsoft Azure storage account and create a secret that contains the base64 encoded Azure Storage account name and key. In the secret file, base64-encode Azure Storage account name and pair it with name azurestorageaccountname, and base64-encode Azure Storage access key and pair it with name azurestorageaccountkey.

   After that, you can create a Kubernetes secret with that file:

apiVersion: v1 kind: Secret metadata: name: azure-secret type: Opaque data: azurestorageaccountname: azhzdGVzdA== azurestorageaccountkey: eElGMXpKYm5ub2pGTE1Ta0JwNTBteDAyckhzTUsyc2pVN21GdDRMMTNob0I3ZHJBYUo4akQ2K0E0NDNqSm9nVjd5MkZVT2hRQ1dQbU02WWFOSHk3cWc9PQ==

3. Now you can mount a share into your pod:

apiVersion: v1 kind: Pod metadata: name: azure spec: containers: - image: kubernetes/pause name: azure volumeMounts: - name: azure mountPath: /mnt/azure volumes: - name: azure azureFile: secretName: azure-secret shareName: k8stest readOnly: false