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 private storage ideal for internal company documents. This article will provide a visual demonstration the process outlined in this exercise provided my Microsoft:
Create a storage account and configure high availability.
1. Create a storage account the internal company documents:
In the portal, search for and select Storage accounts.
Select the Resource group created in the previous lab.
Select Review, and then Create the storage account.
Wait for the storage account to deploy, and then select Go to resource.
Create a storage container, upload a file, and restrict access to the file.
1. Create a private storage container for the corporate data
- In the storage account, in the Data storage section, select the Containers blade.
- Select + Container.
- Ensure the Name of the container is private.
- Ensure the Public access level is Private (no anonymous access).
- As you have time, review the Advanced settings, but take the defaults.
- Select Create.
2. For testing, upload a file to the private container. he type of file doesn’t matter. A small image or text file is a good choice. Test to ensure the file isn’t publicly accessible:
Select the container.
Browse to files and select a file.
Upload the file.
On the Overview tab, copy the URL.
3. An external partner requires read and write access to the file for at least the next 24 hours. Configure and test a shared access signature (SAS).
- Select your uploaded blob file and move to the Generate SAS tab.
- In the Permissions drop-down, ensure the partner has only Read permissions.
- Verify the Start and expiry date/time is for the next 24 hours.
Select Generate SAS token and URL. - Select Generate SAS token and URL.
- Copy the Blob SAS URL to a new browser tab
- Verify you can access the file. If you have uploaded an image file it will display in the browser. Other file types will be downloaded.
Configure storage access tiers and content replication
1. To save on costs, after 30 days, move blobs from the hot tier to the cool tier
- Return to the storage account. (Follow steps earlier in the tutorial)
In the Overview section, notice the Default access tier is set to Hot.
Set the Rule scope to Apply rule to all blobs in the storage account.
Select Next.
2. The public website files need to be backed up to another storage account
- In your storage account, create a new container called backup.
To do this go to the storage account, in overview, select Upload
Name the container "backup" and click ok
Set the Destination storage account to the private storage account.
Set the Source container to public and the Destination container to backup.
Create the replication rule.
Optionally, as you have time, upload a file to the public container. Return to the private storage account and refresh the backup container. Within a few minutes your public website file will appear in the backup folder.
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