Storage account creation in Azure - Mini Project: Build & Apply

Storage account creation

📖 Scenario: You are setting up cloud storage for a small business. They need a place to store files securely and access them easily.

🎯 Goal: Create an Azure Storage Account with basic settings to store and manage files.

📋 What You'll Learn

Create a resource group named myResourceGroup

Create a storage account named mystorageaccount

Set the storage account location to eastus

Use the Standard_LRS replication type

Set the account kind to StorageV2

💡 Why This Matters

🌍 Real World

Creating storage accounts is a common task to store files, backups, and data in the cloud securely and reliably.

💼 Career

Cloud engineers and administrators often create and manage storage accounts as part of infrastructure setup and maintenance.

1

Create a resource group

Write an Azure CLI command to create a resource group named myResourceGroup in the eastus location.

Azure

# Your Azure CLI command here

Need a hint?

Use az group create with --name and --location options.

2

Set storage account name and location variables

Create two variables in Bash: storageAccountName set to mystorageaccount and location set to eastus.

Azure

az group create --name myResourceGroup --location eastus
# Define storageAccountName and location variables
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use variable=value syntax in Bash.

3

Create the storage account

Write an Azure CLI command to create a storage account using the variables storageAccountName and location. Use resource group myResourceGroup, account kind StorageV2, and replication Standard_LRS.

Azure

az group create --name myResourceGroup --location eastus
storageAccountName=mystorageaccount
location=eastus
# Create storage account with specified parameters
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use az storage account create with the correct flags and variables.

4

Verify the storage account creation

Write an Azure CLI command to show the details of the storage account named mystorageaccount in resource group myResourceGroup.

Azure

az group create --name myResourceGroup --location eastus
storageAccountName=mystorageaccount
location=eastus
az storage account create --name $storageAccountName --resource-group myResourceGroup --location $location --sku Standard_LRS --kind StorageV2
# Show storage account details
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use az storage account show with --name and --resource-group.