How to restrict data access to users using ACLs

In this recipe, you will learn how to use ACLs to restrict access to data for individual files and directories, without assigning Azure Storage Blob-related roles to the AAD user/group in an ADLS Gen-2 Storage Account.

In the next section, you will learn about the prerequisites for getting started with this recipe.

Getting ready

Before starting, you need to ensure you have completed the Creating ACLs using Storage Explorer and PowerShell recipe.

We haven't assigned any Azure Storage Blob-related roles to Appuser yet, as shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 10.25 – Role assignments to Appuser

You can find the Notebook that was used for this recipe at the following link:

https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Azure-Databricks-Cookbook/blob/main/Chapter10/Code/10.5-ACL.ipynb

In this recipe, we will create a container called rawdata in an ADLS Gen-2 Storage account and copy the Customer...