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Provide storage for the IT department testing and training

Come with me, let dive into the step-by-step Architecture diagram of storage and testing

- Architecture diagram and Skill tasks

  • Establish a naming convention.
  • Create a storage account.
  • Configure basic settings for security and networking.

  • Storage Plan
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Create a resource group and a storage account.

1- Create and deploy a resource group to hold all your project resources. Here're the few easy steps to get there, follow me.

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  • Select + Create.

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  • 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. Image description
  • *ensure you have a green tick like this to progress. *

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  • Select Create to deploy the resource group.

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2- Create and deploy a storage account to support testing and training. next steps follow me hands on

  • In the Azure portal, search for and select Storage accounts.
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  • Select + Create.

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  • select sandwich tab, then the home tab and follow by the storage account.

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  • Select + create

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

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  • Set the Performance to Standard.

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  • Select Review, and then Create.

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

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  • step 2

1- Configure simple settings in the storage account
Lets start with a storage account redundancy

  • In your storage account, in the Data management section, select the Redundancy blade.

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  • Select Locally-redundant storage (LRS) in the Redundancy drop-down and sure to Save your changes.

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  • Refresh the page and notice the content only exists in the primary location.

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2- The storage account should only accept requests from secure connections. Learn more about requiring secure transfer from secure connections

  • In the Settings section, select the Configuration blade

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  • Ensure Secure transfer required is Enabled.

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3- Developers would like the storage account to use at least TLS version 1.2. Learn more about transport layer security (TLS)

  • In the Settings section, select the Configuration blade and
  • Ensure the Minimal TLS version is set to Version 1.2.

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4- Until the storage is needed again, disable requests to the storage account. Learn more about disabling shared keys

  • In the Settings section, select the Configuration blade.
  • Ensure Allow storage account key access is Disabled.
  • Be sure to Save your changes.

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5- Ensure the storage account allows public access from all networks

  • In the Security + networking section, select the Networking blade.

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  • Ensure Public network access is set to Enabled from all networks.
  • Be sure to Save your changes.

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Azure storage account is now successfully created and ready to go. if you like this page, please follow me for more update.
Thank you for your time.

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