2. Azure Blob Storage and Account Creation¶
2.1. Azure Blob Storage¶
Azure Storage is Microsoft’s cloud storage solution for modern data storage scenarios. Azure Blob storage is Microsoft’s object storage solution for the cloud. Blob storage is optimized for storing massive amounts of data.
Blob storage offers three types of resources:
- The storage account
- A container in the storage account
- A blob in a container
2.2. Azure Storage account creation¶
Following are the steps to create Azure storage account
Prerequisites
Create a free Azure cloud services subscirption account.
Log in to the Azure Portal.
AZ-Portal{#fig:az-portal}
- In the Azure portal, click on
Create a resource
on the top left corner.
AZ-Resource{#fig:az-resource}
- Select
Storage Account
from the options shown
AZ-Account{#fig:az-account}
- Select the subscription in which to create the storage account.
- Under the
Resource group
field, select Create new. Enter a name for your new resource group. - Next, enter a name for your storage account.
- Select a
location
for your storage account, or use the default location. - Select
create
After the completion of above steps, Azure blob storage service will be ready
for use. As a first step, a Container
should be created in the Blob storage.
A container organizes a set of blobs, similar to a directory in a file system.
A default Container
should be set in the cloudmesh4.yaml
file, details of
which are outlined
here
IMPORTANT NOTE:
The free Azure account needs to be upgrade to a pay-as-you-go subscription after first 30 days to get continued access to free products—some for the first 12 months.
Refer to more details here - https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free/