Provide Storage For The IT Department Testing And Training.

In today’s rapidly evolving technological landscape, efficient and reliable storage solutions are paramount for any IT department. Whether it’s for testing new applications, training staff, or managing day-to-day operations, understanding the intricacies of storage systems is crucial. This document aims to provide a comprehensive overview of storage technologies, on their application in testing and training environments.

Steps to provide storage for the IT department:

For Creating A Resource Group And A Storage Account in Azure.

What is a Resource Group?

A resource group in Azure is a logical container that holds related resources for an Azure solution. It can include all the resources for the solution or only those you want to manage as a group.

What is a Storage Account?

This is the core building block for managing cloud storage in azure.it is also like a container to store various types of data, from files to large binary objects.

lets get into it.

Step 1

In the Azure portal, search for and select

Select + Create

Give your resource group a name For example Nneoma, then 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.

Step 2

Create and deploy a storage account to support testing and training.

In the Azure portal, search for and select
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, and then Create.

Wait for the storage account to deploy and then Go to resource.
A deployed account should look like this.

Configure simple settings in the storage account.

step 1

The data in this storage account doesn’t require high availability or durability. A lowest cost storage solution is desired.

In your storage account, 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.

step 2

The storage account should only accept requests from secure connection.

In the Settings section, select the Configuration blade.
Ensure Secure transfer required is Enabled.

step 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.

step 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.

step 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.

That's all that is needed to successfully create a storage account and a resource group, for an IT department for testing and training.