lab03-storage.md

LAB 03: Azure Storage

Authenticate to Azure and select the subscription (if you have more than one)

Tip

To retrieve the name of your subscription run the following command:

Get-AzSubscription | Out-GridView

$SubscriptionName = "<Subscription Name>"

Set up the variables

• Provide the name of your resource group: $ResourceGroupName

• Provide the name of your new storage account: $StorageAccountName

• Provide a name for your new container: $ContainerName

• Provide a name for your new blob: $BlobName

• Provide the full path to a file you want to upload: $FileToUpload

• Provide the full path to a directory you wish to use for downloaded blobs: $DestinationFolder

Create a new storage account

Get a context of the storage account

Tip

Context is the property of the storage account object

Create a new container

Tip

The following command will give you a list of the needed cmdlets

Get-Command -Module Az.Storage -noun *container*, *blob* | sort noun | ft -GroupBy noun

Upload a blob to the container

List all blobs in the container

Create a destination folder on your machine (if it doesn't exist)

Download the blob to the local destination folder

Delete the container