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Maxwell Wokocha C.
Maxwell Wokocha C.

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Create A Resource Group And A Storage Account In Azure

Skilling tasks:
. Create a resource group.
. Create a storage account.
. Configure basic settings for security and networking.

What is a Resource Group?
A resource group is a container that holds related resources together. Example: virtual machines, storage accounts, databases, and networking components.

What is a Storage Account?
A Storage Account is a container that groups a set of Azure storage services together. Example: Azure Blobs, Azure Files, Azure Queues, and
Azure Tables.

No 1: Create and deploy a resource group to hold all your project resources.

. In the Azure portal, search for and select Resource groups.

Search For Resource Group In The Search Bar

. Select + Create.
Create Resource Group

. Give your resource group a name.
Give Your Resource Group A Globally Unique Name

. Select a region.
Choose A Region Close To You Or The Project You're Building Resource Group For And Stick To It Throughout The Project

. Select Review and create to validate the resource group.
Review

. Select Create to deploy the resource group.
Hit The Create Icon To Deploy Resource Group

No 2: Create and deploy a storage account to support the department.

. In the Azure portal, search for and select Storage accounts.
Select The Top Search Result

. Select + Create.
Click On Create

. On the Basics tab, select your Resource group.
On The Dropdown Menu Select the Resource Group You Created

. Provide a Storage account name.
The storage account name must be globally unique in Azure

. Set the Performance to Standard.
General-Purpose v2 Account

. Select Review, and then Create.
Review The Details

Create Storage Account

. Wait for the storage account to deploy and then Go to resource.

No 3: Configure simple settings in the storage account.

a: The data in this storage account doesn’t require high availability or durability. A lowest cost storage solution is desired.

. In your storage account, in the Data management section, select the Redundancy blade.
Click On The Redundancy Blade

. Select Locally-redundant storage (LRS) in the Redundancy drop-down.
Select LRS

. Be sure to Save your changes.
Save Changes

. Refresh the page and notice the content only exists in the primary location.
LRS Changes To One Location

b: The storage account should only accept requests from secure connections.

. In the Settings section, select the Configuration blade.
Click On Configuration

. Ensure Secure transfer required is Enabled.

c: Developers would like the storage account to use at least TLS version 1.2.

. In the Settings section, select the Configuration blade.

. Ensure the Minimal TLS version is set to Version 1.2.
TLS 1.2

d: Until the storage is needed again, disable requests to the storage account

. In the Settings section, select the Configuration blade.

. Ensure Allow storage account key access is Disabled.

. Be sure to Save your changes.

e: Ensure the storage account allows public access from all networks.

. In the Security + networking section, select the Networking blade.
Click On Networking

. Ensure Public network access is set to Enabled from all networks.
Click On Manage


. Be sure to Save your changes.

Thanks everyone.. Till the next post..

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SKILL.SCH

Beautiful