# KFP customizations for Azure This template provides a starting point to configure KFP to use an Azure hosted MySQL database, as well as an Azure Blob backed MinIO service. ## MySQL 1. [Create an Azure Database for MySQL](https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/mysql/quickstart-create-mysql-server-database-using-azure-portal). Ensure that it will allow connections from the Kubernetes cluster. 2. Substitute the server name into [params.env](./params.env), and the username and password into [mysql-secret.env](./mysql-secret.env) ## MinIO Gateway for Azure Blobstore 1. [Create an Azure Storage account](https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/storage/common/storage-account-create). Ensure that it will allow connections from the Kubernetes cluster. 2. Substitute the storage name and access key into [minio-artifact-secret.env](./minio-azure-gateway/minio-artifact-secret.env).