Lab 1: Create Azure resources
Task 1: Open the Azure portal
On the taskbar, select the Microsoft Edge icon.
In the browser window, browse to the Azure portal (https://portal.azure.com), and then sign in with the account you'll be using for this lab.
Note: If this is your first time signing in to the Azure portal, you'll be offered a tour of the portal. Select Get Started to skip the tour and begin using the portal.
Task 2: Create a Storage account
In the Azure portal, use the Search resources, services, and docs text box to search for Storage Accounts, and then in the list of results, select Storage Accounts.
On the Storage accounts blade, select + Create.
On the Create a storage account blade, on the Basics tab, perform the following actions, and then select Review:
| Setting | Action | | -- | -- | | Subscription drop-down list | Retain the default value | | Resource group section | Select Create new, enter StorageMedia, and then select OK | | Storage account name text box | Enter mediastor[yourname] | | Region drop-down list | Select (US) East US | | Performance section | Select the Standard option | | Redundancy drop-down list | select Locally-redundant storage (LRS) |
The following screenshot displays the configured settings on the Create a storage account blade.
On the Review tab, review the options that you selected during the previous steps.
Select Create to create the storage account by using your specified configuration.
Note: Wait for the creation task to complete before you move forward with this lab.
Select Go to resource.
On the Storage account blade, in the Settings section, select the Endpoints link.
In the Endpoints section, copy the value of the Blob Service text box to the clipboard.
Note: You'll use this endpoint value later in the lab.
Open Notepad, and then paste the copied blob service value to Notepad.
On the Storage account blade, in the Security + networking section, select Access keys.
Copy the Storage account name value to the clipboard and then paste it into Notepad.
On the Access keys blade, select Show keys.
Review any one of the keys, and then copy the value of either of the Key boxes to the clipboard.
Note: You'll use all these values later in this lab.
Review
In this exercise, you created a new Storage account to use throughout the remainder of the lab.