Azure Classroom Series – 30/May/2021

Azure Access Tier Lifecycle

• Azure Access Tier helps us automating the movement of object’s access tier to optimize storage costs
• To Create life cycle rule Navigate to Data Management => Lifecycle Management.

Exercise

• Create a storage account in Azure with the following containers
  • videos
  • music
  • images
  • docs
• Add some sample file into the storage account containers

Activities:

1. Upload the content and ensure your containers are private
2. Enable versioning
3. Setup object replication to other storage account
4. Create a lifecycle rule to move objects older than 30 days to cool tier

Considerations

• When we setup azure storage account for the application or backups to hold, if it is one time activity, we can use Portal to set up.

• But if creating storage accounts is done repetitively then creating and configuring storage accounts from portal might not be sensible option

• We need to create some kind of automated approach of creating and managing storage account.

• To perform these kind of automated actions, Azure provides

  • Azure CLI
  • Azure PowerShell
  • Azure SDK

• Installing/Configuring Azure CLI/PowerShell Refer Here

• Setting up Visual Studio Code for Azure CLI

• Alternative for Azure CLI and PowerShell, Launch Azure Cloud Shell