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Blob containers and access levels

📖 Scenario: You are working with Azure Blob Storage to organize and control access to your files. You need to create a container, set its access level, and verify the configuration.

🎯 Goal: Create an Azure Blob Storage container named projectfiles, set its access level to blob so that blobs are publicly accessible but the container is not, and confirm the access level setting.

📋 What You'll Learn

Create a blob container named projectfiles

Set the container's public access level to blob

Retrieve and confirm the container's access level

💡 Why This Matters

🌍 Real World

Managing blob containers and their access levels is essential for securely sharing files and controlling public access in cloud storage.

💼 Career

Cloud administrators and developers often configure blob storage containers to meet security and accessibility requirements for applications.

1

Create the blob container

Write the Azure CLI command to create a blob container named projectfiles in the storage account mystorageaccount.

Azure

# Your Azure CLI command here to create the container

Need a hint?

Use az storage container create with --name and --account-name options.

2

Set the container access level

Write the Azure CLI command to set the public access level of the container projectfiles to blob in the storage account mystorageaccount.

Azure

az storage container create --name projectfiles --account-name mystorageaccount
# Your Azure CLI command here to set access level

Need a hint?

Use az storage container set-permission with --public-access blob.

3

Check the container access level

Write the Azure CLI command to get the properties of the container projectfiles in the storage account mystorageaccount to confirm its access level.

Azure

az storage container create --name projectfiles --account-name mystorageaccount
az storage container set-permission --name projectfiles --public-access blob --account-name mystorageaccount
# Your Azure CLI command here to get container properties

Need a hint?

Use az storage container show to view container details.

4

Confirm the access level in output

Add the Azure CLI option to output the container properties in JSON format for easy reading.

Azure

az storage container create --name projectfiles --account-name mystorageaccount
az storage container set-permission --name projectfiles --public-access blob --account-name mystorageaccount
az storage container show --name projectfiles --account-name mystorageaccount
# Add JSON output option

Need a hint?

Add --output json to the show command.