How to create and deploy a storage account to support testing and training
Tags: azure, deveops, testing, training
Published: 2024-05-28 17:54:26

The following are itemized steps to do the above exercise
1. In the Azure portal homepage select Storage accounts 
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2. select create
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3. On the Basics tab, select your Resource group and name it then click create as seen in the image below.
![Image description](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/er7igtknjh25rsd6hwrd.png)
4. Provide a Storage account name and the storage account name be unique in Azure. the storage account was named nicolestorage1
![Image description](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/fxozctr50d2x2bu2xnlc.png)
5. Set the Performance to Standard
![Image description](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/te2pp1vho32om6bpj623.png)
6. Select Review, and then Create.
![Image description](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/7jljsofibu0lre6mwocx.png)
7. wait for validation then click create
![Image description](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/t1638pd822d023p31282.png)
8. wait for deployment to pass then click on resources
![Image description](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/obhfokeqvq37bwg31krg.png)
9. After clicking on the data management section, select the Redundancy blade.
![Image description](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/vqip03us57wb213n4h1p.png)
10.Select Locally-redundant storage (LRS) in the Redundancy drop-down and save
![Image description](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/pn6bidk039aycnarvxld.png).
11.Settings section, select the Configuration blade and save![Image description](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/r2igpk0w9jyyior4c0m0.png)
12. Ensure secure transfer required is Enabled
![Image description](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/um3p9g47kq7c0ms62cvc.png)
13.Settings section, select the Configuration blade.
![Image description](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/b5hts74qwgj37v3upucb.png)
14. ensure Minimal TLS version is set to Version 1.2
![Image description](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/b4q52ejjpridl6c7nv93.png)
15. Until the storage is needed again, disable requests to the storage account.
![Image description](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/h177i1xe46w2b6w9yzkk.png)
16. in the setting section, select the configuration blade, ensure to allow storage account key access is Disabled and Save your changes
![Image description](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/5oyyjplnavtbbf4pzelv.png)
17. To ensure that storage account allows public access from all networks. In the Security + networking section, select the Networking blade
![Image description](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/b97xxj055xk4les43zez.png)
18. Set Public network access to enabled from all networks, Save changes.
![Image description](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/xwnw6khkdmluv36jp8j9.png)