Configuring Azure Storage Account and Blob Container Walkthrough
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>> Hey, everybody. Welcome back.
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As you can see here, we are in the Azure Portal.
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>> In this lecture, we're going to
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>> be walking through the process of setting up
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an Azure Storage account and a Blob storage container.
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In order to create a storage account,
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I'm going to go to my Create Resource menu
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and I'm going to type in storage account.
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The service will pop down right there,
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as you can see, it is a Microsoft solution.
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We're going to go ahead and hit "Create"
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and we're going to go through configurations.
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I'm going to leave it as subscription 1.
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You can choose whatever subscription you would like.
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You can always create more subscriptions if you need.
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Then we're going to leave it within myResourceGroup2.
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That's just a last resource group that we're working
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with as we go along with this lesson.
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Moving down here for Instance details.
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We're going to actually create
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>> our storage account name.
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>> In this case, it has to be globally unique,
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and so I'm going to make mine cybrarymoysa
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for storage account, and 2,
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and I say 2 because I actually recently created one,
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I had a cybrarymoysa1.
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This is going to be my second version.
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You see this check mark over here?
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This is an indication that you are good to go.
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If you see an X, that means that it's taken.
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This name would be taken and then you
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have to just recreate another name.
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Just come up with something else.
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It's always good to follow a naming scheme
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or some naming convention that
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you're planning to use across
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your entire organization, makes
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things really easy to organize.
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But just for the sake of learning,
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we're just going to make this super simple.
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I'm going to leave this as standard
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because we don't need more performance,
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this is just a lesson.
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We want to walk through the process and
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learn how this works.
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We're going to keep it in US East
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because I'm based out of Florida.
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We're going to leave it as StorageV2, that's fine.
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Replication, I'd like to keep it as
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locally-redundant so that it's cheaper for me.
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I'm going to move over to Networking.
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For Network connectivity, we have
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Public endpoints to all networks.
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This is basically the setting
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that tells us the various methods that we
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could connect to the storage containers
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within the storage account.
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You have several options here.
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You could set it at storage account level
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that only privates,
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it's only a private endpoint,
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only a public endpoint,
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or it could be all networks or whatever.
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You have some options there
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and there's various ways where
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you can set the access controls,
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whether it be the container
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itself or at the storage account layer.
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Just keep that in mind,
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sometimes when you're troubleshooting,
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there could be some issues with,
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maybe you intended for
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a certain blob container to be public access,
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but then the storage account that sits at
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the higher level doesn't want that, doesn't allow that.
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That could theoretically block
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the access to the container itself.
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If you're troubleshooting and you can't figure out
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why you're not able to
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access it from the public Internet,
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it might be a good idea to just
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check this storage account settings.
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Just keep that in mind. We're going to leave
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these network settings as is, good to go there.
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Here's some interesting settings here.
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We have Enable point-in-time restore for containers.
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If you want to add some redundancy,
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you can have backups run consistently
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>> on the containers.
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>> These are some additional
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>> recovery services that are there.
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>> Soft delete essentially allows you to
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mark a container or an object for deletion,
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but there's a seven-day grace period for you to
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>> actually recover it before it is indefinitely deleted.
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>> Soft delete would act as that safety barrier
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>> to make sure that you're not getting rid of something
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>> or that maybe somebody didn't get rid of
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something that you didn't want.
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>> Could be an accident, things happen, right?
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>> We don't want to lose our information
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>> that's super valuable.
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>> As always a good safety check,
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I'm not going to enable it because
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this is just a lesson,
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but just know that that's there for
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your blobs and for
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your containers and for your file shares.
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File shares do fall within your storage account.
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You can't set that up within
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storage account just like you can blobs.
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Just keep that in mind.
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Let's go ahead and move on to Advanced.
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For secure transfer,
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this is all fine.
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This is all good here.
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Notice here on their blob storage,
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we can set it for
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blob public access so we can enable this,
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we wanted to have that access there.
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We can also have Blob access tier to Cool or Hot.
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This is based on your frequency of accessing
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the data stored within that blob, so keep that in mind.
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Cool is going to be infrequently accessed,
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it's the next level to archive from Hot,
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so it sits in the middle.
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But your cost is cheaper,
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but you do end up having to
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wait on access and such like that.
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Hierarchical namespace, if we're going
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to do a data lake, that's okay.
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We're not dealing with anything
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with tables and queues and files
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so we're going to go ahead and move on to Tags.
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We will not add a tag,
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so let's go ahead and go to Review and Create.
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All looks good.
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I'm going to go ahead and hit "Create".
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Just like everything else,
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it does take a little bit for
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the deployment to take place.
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Go ahead and grab yourself a cup of coffee or
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some water, come back and we'll pick it back up.
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Looks like the deployment is now complete.
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We can see deployment details.
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We now have a storage account called cybrarymoysa2.
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If you're following along, that's great.
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You might have your own that's already set up.
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If that's the case, we can go to the resource here,
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and we can see all the details here.
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Here's our dashboard for the storage account.
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As you can see here,
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there's all kind of stuff that we can do.
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We scroll down on the left-hand pane,
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we have our Blob service,
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we have our File service,
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our Table service, our Queue service, Monitoring.
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We have a lot of stuff here.
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It's a lot of great stuff.
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But for this lesson, we're going to focus on blobs.
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In order to set up a blob container,
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we're going to go under Blob service,
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we're going to hit "Containers",
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and we're going to press this
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"Plus Container" button here.
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Here's where we go ahead and create it.
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Wait, I think it has to be all lowercase.
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Yes, test-blob-container.
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We've got a check mark, so we're good.
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I'm going to set it to Private access,
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and I'm going to go ahead and hit "Create".
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That was really quick. As you can see here,
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we have our blob container already set up,
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and I can begin to upload a file.
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When I hit this little blue icon here,
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I'm going to navigate over to
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pictures and double tap my image.
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It's a cat picture here.
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I'll go ahead and hit "Upload".
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Let's go ahead and see if we can look at this picture.
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We have some details here.
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We know that it's a block blob type.
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We have the size information,
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we know that it's Hot,
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or it's inferred to as such.
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It's going to be a JPEG,
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>> it did give us a data type right there.
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>> Let's see, if we downloaded.
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You can go ahead and touch that.
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Here's our picture.
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This was successfully stored
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inside our Azure Blob container.
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It gave us all the information we needed.
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You guys can now see how
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simple it is to go ahead and set up
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your first Azure Blob and upload and delete.
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It's very simple, very fast.
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Everybody, that wraps up
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this lecture, I hope this was helpful.
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You should be pursuing a lab very shortly,
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possibly in the next lecture where you're going to
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be working on building
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your own lab and uploading data
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>> and all that good stuff.
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>> Enjoy that. If you have any questions,
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feel free to reach out to me.
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If not, I'll see you in the next lecture.
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