Storage account

As explained in Bootstrapping Microservices, Second Edition: With Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, and Terraform

A storage account is an Azure resource that provides an access boundary and configuration for stored data.

A storage account provides cloud storage for private or public files. Files are uploaded to Azure Storage and accessed through its storage API. section 4.4.1

Use a private account when customers should receive files through an application rather than downloading them directly. A microservice can authenticate with Azure and retrieve stored videos. section 4.4.1

A practical setup uses these steps:

• Create a storage account in the Azure portal. section 4.4.1
• Create a videos container and upload a test video. section 4.4.1
• Configure the account name and access key as environment variables. section 4.4.1

Video-storage microservice

A Node.js service uses @azure/storage-blob, a storage account name, and an access key to authenticate and retrieve a requested video. section 4.4.1

Figure 4.6 Creating a new storage account in the Azure portal

Use the portal walkthrough to create the storage account before configuring containers and uploaded files. section 4.4.1

How Bootstrapping Microservices, Second Edition: With Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, and Terraform covers it

How deep it goes

Explains account creation, containers, uploads, credentials, and retrieval code, while deferring vendor-specific storage internals.

Examples

Uses an Azure portal account, a videos container, an uploaded test video, environment variables, and a retrieval service.

What it assumes

Assumes an existing Azure account and introduces storage-account creation, containers, uploads, and access credentials.

What you can do after

Operate/configure private Azure file storage and connect a Node.js microservice to retrieve stored videos.

How it connects

Connects storage accounts with Azure Storage, blob storage, containers, authentication, cloud storage APIs, and microservices.

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Related concepts

• Azure Storage Queueshas part · Azure Storage Queues is a Microsoft Azure service that stores messages in queues for asynchronous communication and processing between application components.
• table storagehas part · Azure Table Storage is a NoSQL data store that stores structured, nonrelational data as schemaless entities in tables, addressed by partition and row keys.
• Azure Blob Storagehas part · Azure Blob Storage is Microsoft Azure’s managed cloud object-storage service for storing and accessing unstructured data as blobs.
• containerhas part · A container is a structure or entity that holds, groups, or packages other data or elements.
• blob containerhas part · A blob container is a logical organizational unit in Azure Storage that holds blobs within a storage account.

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