What is Microsoft Azure?
Azure is a platform and service for cloud computing. Through Microsoft's extensive global network of data centres, it offers a broad range of cloud services, such as computing, analytics, storage, and networking, enabling developers and companies to create, implement, and oversee applications. In this exercise, we will be using Azure to provide storage ideal for an IT department to use for testing and training. This article will provide a visual demonstration the process outlined in this exercise provided my Microsoft: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-ca/training/modules/guided-project-azure-files-azure-blobs/2-exercise-help-desk-storage
Create a resource group and a storage account
1. Create and deploy a resource group to hold all your project resources
- Open the Azure portal
Search for and select Resource Groups*
Select your subscription (likely selected by default)
Create a unique name for your resource group (ITstorage999 in the case of this example, choose a unique name for yours)
Select a region. Use this region throughout the project.
Select Review and create to validate the resource group.
Select Create to deploy the resource group
2. Create and deploy a storage account to support testing and training
In the Azure portal, search for and select Storage accounts**.
Select + Create
On the Basics tab, select your Resource group.
Provide a Storage account name. The storage account name must be unique in Azure.
Set the Performance to Standard.
Select Review.
Select Create
Click Go to resource
Configure simple settings in the storage account
1. The data in this storage account doesn’t require high availability or durability ***. A lowest cost storage solution is desired.
In the Data management section, select the Redundancy blade.
Select Locally-redundant storage (LRS) in the Redundancy drop-down.
Be sure to Save your changes
Refresh the page and notice the content only exists in the primary location
2. The storage account should only accept requests from secure connections
- In the Settings section, select the Configuration blade.
- Ensure Secure transfer required is Enabled.
3. Developers would like the storage account to use at least TLS version 1.2****
- In the Settings section, select the Configuration blade.
- Ensure the Minimal TLS version is set to Version 1.2.
4. Until the storage is needed again, disable requests to the storage account
- In the Settings section, select the Configuration blade.
- Ensure Allow storage account key access is Disabled.
- Be sure to Save your changes.
5. Ensure the storage account allows public access from all networks.
- In the Security + networking section, select the Networking blade.
- Ensure Public network access is set to Enabled from all networks.
- Be sure to Save your changes.
Important terms used in this article:
Resource Group: A resource group is a logical container in Azure that holds related resources for an application. This can include virtual machines, storage accounts, and networks, all being managed in a single unit
Storage accounts: An Azure Storage Account is a cloud-based repository for storing and accessing data, such as blobs, files, queues, and tables, in a scalable and secure manner
**High Availability and Durability:
High Availability: Azure Storage uses replication to ensure that your data is always available, even in the event of hardware failures or network outages. Data is replicated across multiple servers and data centers to provide high availability.
Durability: Azure Storage provides durable storage to ensure that your data is protected against hardware failures, power outages, and other disasters. Data is written to multiple locations to provide redundancy and ensure that data can be recovered in case of a disaster.
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