What is Azure Storage?
Azure Storage provides highly accessible, massively scalable, secure, and long-lasting cloud storage for a wide range of data items. It is Microsoft's cloud storage solution for many data storage scenarios.
How to Create a resource group and a storage account
STEPS
1. Create and deploy a resource group to hold all your project resources.
- In the Azure portal, search for and select Resource groups
- Select + Create
- Give your resource group a name. For example, storagerg
- Select a region. Use this region throughout the project
- Select Review and create to validate the resource group.
- Select Create to deploy the resource group
- The newly created resource group is highlighted
2. Create and deploy a storage account to support testing and training.
- In the Azure portal, search for and select Storage accounts
Select + Create
On the Basics tab, select your Resource group
- Provide a Storage account name. The storage account name must be unique in Azure.
- Set the Performance to Standard.
- Select Review, and then Create.
- Wait for the storage account to deploy and then Go to resource
Configure simple settings in the storage account
STEPS
1. **The data in this storage account doesn’t require high availability or durability. A lowest cost storage solution is desired
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- In your storage account, in the Data management section, select the Redundancy blade
- Select Locally-redundant storage (LRS) in the Redundancy drop-down
- Be sure to Save your changes
- Refresh the page and notice the content only exists in the primary location
2. **The storage account should only accept requests from secure connections**
- In the Settings section, select the Configuration blade
- Ensure Secure transfer required is Enabled
3. 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.
4. 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
5. Ensure the storage account allows public access from all networks
In the Security + networking section, select the **Networking **blade
Ensure Public network access is set to Enabled from all networks
Be sure to Save your changes
Summary
Thank you for taking the time to read! I hope these curated step-by-step procedures to create Azure resources, storage accounts, and configuration prove to be incredibly valuable on your development journey. If you have any suggestions or tips, either about the resources posted here or other tools you find helpful, please share them in the comments below.
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