Storage commands in Azure - Mini Project: Build & Apply

Storage commands

📖 Scenario: You are working as a cloud administrator for a small company. You need to manage Azure Storage resources using command-line commands. This project will guide you through creating a storage account, configuring a container, uploading a file, and setting access permissions.

🎯 Goal: Build a sequence of Azure CLI commands to create a storage account, create a blob container, upload a file to the container, and set the container's access level.

📋 What You'll Learn

Create a storage account named exactly mystorageacct123 in the eastus region

Create a blob container named exactly mycontainer inside the storage account

Upload a file named exactly example.txt to the blob container

Set the blob container's access level to blob (public read access for blobs only)

💡 Why This Matters

🌍 Real World

Managing Azure Storage resources via command line is common for automation and scripting in cloud operations.

💼 Career

Cloud administrators and DevOps engineers often use Azure CLI commands to manage storage accounts and containers efficiently.

1

Create the Azure storage account

Write the Azure CLI command to create a storage account named mystorageacct123 in the eastus region with the resource group myResourceGroup. Use the Standard_LRS SKU and StorageV2 kind.

Azure

# Your Azure CLI command here to create the storage account

Need a hint?

Use az storage account create with the exact parameters given.

2

Create a blob container

Write the Azure CLI command to create a blob container named mycontainer inside the storage account mystorageacct123.

Azure

az storage account create --name mystorageacct123 --resource-group myResourceGroup --location eastus --sku Standard_LRS --kind StorageV2
# Your Azure CLI command here to create the blob container

Need a hint?

Use az storage container create with the exact container name and storage account.

3

Upload a file to the blob container

Write the Azure CLI command to upload a file named example.txt to the blob container mycontainer in the storage account mystorageacct123. Assume the file is in the current directory.

Azure

az storage account create --name mystorageacct123 --resource-group myResourceGroup --location eastus --sku Standard_LRS --kind StorageV2
az storage container create --name mycontainer --account-name mystorageacct123
# Your Azure CLI command here to upload the file

Need a hint?

Use az storage blob upload with the exact file and container names.

4

Set the blob container access level

Write the Azure CLI command to set the access level of the blob container mycontainer in the storage account mystorageacct123 to blob (public read access for blobs only).

Azure

az storage account create --name mystorageacct123 --resource-group myResourceGroup --location eastus --sku Standard_LRS --kind StorageV2
az storage container create --name mycontainer --account-name mystorageacct123
az storage blob upload --container-name mycontainer --file example.txt --name example.txt --account-name mystorageacct123
# Your Azure CLI command here to set the container access level

Need a hint?

Use az storage container set-permission with the exact container name and access level.