Course description
After this course participants should be able to:
- Create and configure a storage account
- Create and configure Blob Storage
- Create and configure Azure Files
- Configure networking for storage
- Configure encryption for storage
Course structure
Module 1: Create an Azure Storage account
- Decide how many storage accounts you need
- Choose your account settings
- Choose an account creation tool
- Exercise – Create a storage account using the Azure portal
Module 2: Configure Azure Blob Storage
- Implement Azure Blob Storage
- Create blob containers
- Assign blob access tiers
- Add blob lifecycle management rules
- Determine blob object replication
- Manage blobs
- Determine Blob Storage pricing
- Exercise – Provide storage for the public website
Module 3: Configure Azure Files
- Compare storage for file shares and blob data
- Manage Azure file shares
- Create file share snapshots
- Implement soft delete for Azure Files
- Use Azure Storage Explorer
- Consider Azure File Sync
Module 4: Configure Azure Storage security
- Review Azure Storage security strategies
- Create shared access signatures
- Identify URI and SAS parameters
- Determine Azure Storage encryption
- Create customer-managed keys
- Apply Azure Storage security best practices
- Exercise: Manage Azure Storage
- Use network security groups to control network access
- Exercise – Create and manage network security groups
- Secure network access to PaaS services with virtual network service endpoints
- Exercise – Restrict access to Azure Storage by using service endpoints
Module 6: Guided Project – Azure Files and Azure Blobs
- Exercise – Provide storage for the IT department testing and training
- Exercise – Provide storage for the public website
- Exercise – Provide private storage for internal company documents
- Exercise – Provide shared file storage for the company offices
- Exercise – Provide storage for a new company app
