Using Blob Storage from the Azure Cloud Shell

1. Choose a storage account name. Include a unique string to ensure the name does not conflict with any existing storage account:

export AZURE_STORAGE_ACCOUNT="sattrecords&ltunique string>"

2. Set an environment variable containing the resource group to be used in future commands. You can find the resource group name in the Azure portal:

export RESOURCE_GROUP="&ltresource group name>"

3. Create the storage account:

az storage account create 
  --name $AZURE_STORAGE_ACCOUNT 
  --resource-group $RESOURCE_GROUP 
  --location westus 
  --sku Standard_LRS 
  --encryption-services blob

4. Get keys for the storage account:

az storage account keys list 
  --account-name $AZURE_STORAGE_ACCOUNT 
  --resource-group $RESOURCE_GROUP 
  --output table

5. Set an environment variable containing the storage account key so that future commands can authenticate:

export AZURE_STORAGE_KEY="&ltkey>"

Use the following command to create a container to contain the blob:

az storage container create --name records

1. Download the data file:

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/linuxacademy/content-azurestoragedd-lab-resources/master/satt-special-cars.csv

2. Upload the data as a new blob:

az storage blob upload 
  --container-name records 
  --name cars 
  --file satt-special-cars.csv

3. List existing blobs and verify that your new blob appears in the list:

az storage blob list 
  --container-name records 
  --output table

4. Download the blob data to a new file and check the file to verify that it contains the data:

az storage blob download 
  --container-name records 
  --name cars 
  --file cars-dl.csv
cat cars-dl.csv