Chapter 3. Azure Storage Blob service
Chapter 3 from Azure Data Engineering by Richard L. Nuckolls
This chapter covers:
- Naming Azure services
- Choosing a storage service
- Setting up an Azure Storage Blob service
- Configuring file access in a Blob service
In the previous chapter you explored a set of services provided by Microsoft Azure: Event Hubs, Stream Analytics, Data Lake, Data Lake Analytics, and SQL Data Warehouse. You saw at a high level how these services can work together to create an analytics system. This chapter begins showing you how to design and set up these services to lay the foundation of an analytics system. You’ll learn how to implement a storage system that is secure and scalable. The storage system will be an integral part of the system you build in Azure.
Every Azure service, also called a resource, must have a name. Consistently applying a considered naming convention helps users find services, and identify ownership and usage of services. From a resource group to a SQL database to Azure Storage Blobs service, you will be browsing and searching for the specific resource you need to work with.
All Azure services will have a Subscription, a Resource Group, a name, and a location.
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A subscription groups services together for access control and billing.
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A resource group groups related services together for management.
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A location groups services into a regional data center.
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Names are globally unique identifiers within the specific service.