AzPS – Page 2 – Get Practical

Hey everyone,

Today we are going to create a Storage Account for any kind of use and inside this storage account we are going to create a blob for logs and a file share.

In the last post we created a resource group, where we will provision resources during this and the next posts.

Open the Azure Cloud Shell, then choose your subscription, if the cloud shell is already open, we will add the following variables, with the information:

$RGNAME= “RG_GETPRACTICAL”
$LOCATION= “UKSOUTH”
$STRGACCNAME= “strggetpractical01”
$TypeSTRG= “Standard_LRS”

Then we will execute the command “New-AZStorageAccount” to create the storage from the variables assigned above.

New-AzStorageAccount -ResourceGroupName $RGNAME -Name $STRGACCNAME -Type $TypeSTRG -Location $LOCATION

The storage was successfully created.

With the storage created, we are going to create a container to allocate the “Logs” of our environment, for that we are going to assign some variables as well.

$STORAGEACCOUNT = Get-AzStorageAccount -ResourceGroupName $RGNAME -Name $STRGACCNAME
$CONTAINERNAME = “logs”
$CTX = $storageAccount.Context

After assigning the variables, let’s run the following command “New-AzStorageContainer” to create the container.

New-AzStorageContainer -Name $containerName -Context $ctx -Permission blob

Your container was successfully created.

Last but not least let’s create a “File Share” with the following variables.

$STORAGEACCOUNT = Get-AzStorageAccount -ResourceGroupName “RG_GETPRACTICAL” -Name “strggetpractical01”

$storageKey = (Get-AzStorageAccountKey -ResourceGroupName $storageAccount.ResourceGroupName -Name $storageAccount.StorageAccountName | select -first 1).Value

$storageContext = New-AzStorageContext -StorageAccountName $storageAccount.StorageAccountName -StorageAccountKey $storageKey

New-AzureStorageShare -Name “getpracticalshare” -Context $storageContext

The File Share was created successfully, now let’s check the container and the file share that were created.

Container for Logs:

File Share for files:

That’s all for today guys, until the next post!

Joao Costa

Hey guys, how are you?

The idea is to learn how to create the resources and finally create an environment with all the resources together.

To start the configuration we have two ways, use the “Azure Cloud Shell” or install the “AZ Module” of powershell.

AZ Module Installation: Powershell Configuration

Access to Azure Cloud Shell: //shell.azure.com/

For this articles I will use the Azure Cloud Shell.

Let’s start by accessing Cloud Shell, then type in your subscription credentials.

Now let’s create two variables, one indicating the name for the resource group and another indicating the region where we will create the resources.
We will work with variables to facilitate the creation of command lines, in this way we can create complex scripts based on variables.
Let’s create two variables, one with the name of the resource group and the other with the region where we will create the resource group.

$RGNAME= “RG_GETPRACTICAL”
$LOCATION= “UKSOUTH”

After creating the variable, let’s create the command line.

New-AzResourceGroup -Name $RGNAME -Location $LOCATION

As you can see, we are executing the command to create a new resource group with the name given in the variable and with the location we put, in my case I am creating it in “UK South“.

Now you can create the group directly with the “Tag” or make an update on the created group.

To create or update the resource group and assign “Tags“, we will give a name and a value to this tag, according to the command below.

New-AzResourceGroup -Name $RGNAME -Location $LOCATION -Tag @{Department=”IT”}

In the image below, only the update was executed, it asks to confirm if you are going to do the update or not.

Your resource group is now created and tagged.

Thanks guys and until the next post!

Tag: AzPS

Creating a Storage Account using PowerShell

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