Azure Portal walkthrough - Mini Project: Build & Apply

Azure Portal walkthrough

📖 Scenario: You are a new cloud user who wants to explore the Azure Portal. The Azure Portal is a web interface where you can create and manage cloud resources like virtual machines, storage accounts, and databases.Imagine you want to organize your resources by creating a resource group first, then add a storage account inside it.

🎯 Goal: Build a simple Azure resource setup by creating a resource group and a storage account inside it using the Azure Portal configuration syntax.

📋 What You'll Learn

Create a resource group named MyResourceGroup in the eastus region

Create a storage account named mystorageacct123 inside MyResourceGroup

Set the storage account kind to StorageV2

Set the storage account SKU to Standard_LRS

💡 Why This Matters

🌍 Real World

Organizing cloud resources in Azure Portal is essential for managing and deploying applications efficiently.

💼 Career

Cloud engineers and administrators often create and manage resource groups and storage accounts as foundational tasks in Azure.

1

Create the resource group

Create a resource group called MyResourceGroup in the eastus location using the Azure resource configuration syntax.

Azure

# Your code here to create resource group MyResourceGroup in eastus

Need a hint?

Think of a resource group as a folder to keep your cloud resources organized. You need to give it a name and a location.

2

Define the storage account configuration

Create a dictionary called storage_account with the keys name, resource_group, kind, and sku. Set name to mystorageacct123, resource_group to MyResourceGroup, kind to StorageV2, and sku to Standard_LRS.

Azure

resource_group = {
    "name": "MyResourceGroup",
    "location": "eastus"
}
# Your code here to define storage_account dictionary

Need a hint?

The storage account needs to know which resource group it belongs to and what type and performance level it should have.

3

Link storage account to resource group

Add a key called location to the storage_account dictionary and set it to the same location as the resource_group location.

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resource_group = {
    "name": "MyResourceGroup",
    "location": "eastus"
}
storage_account = {
    "name": "mystorageacct123",
    "resource_group": "MyResourceGroup",
    "kind": "StorageV2",
    "sku": "Standard_LRS"
}
# Your code here to add location key to storage_account

Need a hint?

For better performance and management, place resources in the same location as their resource group.

4

Complete the Azure resource setup

Create a list called azure_resources that contains the resource_group and storage_account dictionaries to represent your Azure setup.

Azure

resource_group = {
    "name": "MyResourceGroup",
    "location": "eastus"
}
storage_account = {
    "name": "mystorageacct123",
    "resource_group": "MyResourceGroup",
    "kind": "StorageV2",
    "sku": "Standard_LRS",
    "location": "eastus"
}
# Your code here to create azure_resources list

Need a hint?

Think of this list as your cloud project containing all your Azure resources grouped together.