Management Tasks for Azure Storage – File, Object, and Data Lake Storage

Management Tasks for Azure Storage

There are several management activities that administrators and developers must consider when working with Azure Storage. For one, users will need to decide how they will design their Azure Storage deployments to be reusable across multiple environments. Administrators will also need to decide how to secure their storage accounts, as well as how they will provide/restrict access to the different storage services that are created in the account. The following sections will discuss common methods used to perform these tasks as well as the tools users can utilize to manage their storage accounts.

Deployment Scripting and Automation

Automated resource deployments are standard for any multi-environment workload that uses cloud resources. As with any Azure resource, Azure Storage deployments can be scripted using a variety of methods including Azure PowerShell, Azure CLI, and Infrastructure as Code templates. Azure PowerShell and Azure CLI are also common tools that can be used to manage data stored in Azure Storage. The following sections examine how to use Azure PowerShell, Azure CLI, and ARM templates to deploy Azure Storage resources.

Azure PowerShell

Users can easily write Azure PowerShell scripts that will deploy and manage Azure Storage resources. The following is an example of a script that will create a standard general-purpose v2 storage account: <# Sign into your Azure environment. Not required
if running this script in the Azure Cloud Shell #>
Connect-AzAccount

$resourceGroupName = “dp900storageacct001”
$storageAccountName = “dp900stracct001”
$location = “East US”

New-AzStorageAccount -ResourceGroupName $resourceGroup `
  -Name $storageAccountName `
  -Location $location `
  -SkuName Standard_RAGRS `
  -Kind StorageV2