Manage Storage in Azure

This is the repository for the LinkedIn Learning course Manage Storage in Azure. The full course is available from LinkedIn Learning.

A strong understanding of cloud storage is vital not only for successfully managing data, but also for optimizing cloud spend. In this course, instructor Nicole Stevens covers important aspects of storage in Azure, including code-related deployments, deploying environments with storage accounts via code and Azure Bicep, along with how to authorize access through SDKs for developers. This demo-focused course provides instruction for managing Azure storage with PowerShell and the Azure CLI as well as in the Azure portal.

Instructions

This repository does not have any branches. Clone the entire repository and you get the demo environments and other setups to look at, all in their final state.

Each top level folder corresponds to a chapter, then a folder underneath to a video or videos with files specific to that video. Resources may be required for multiple videos, therefore please use the following table to map a folder to a video title.

Chapter/Folder	Video title
-	Azure Storage and the storage services
-	Azure Storage Types and Performance Tiers
-	Creating a Storage Account in the Azure Portal
01_04	Working with Azure Storage data in the Portal
01_04	An overview of Azure Table Storage and Azure Storage Queues
01_04	Working with Azure Storage data in Azure Storage Explorer: Adding Tables, entities, queues and messages
01_06	Migrating and transferring data into Azure Storage
01_06	Migrating and transferring data into Azure Storage using AzCopy
01_06	Hierarchical namespace and SFTP for Blobs
01_06	Hierarchical namespace and SFTP for Blobs in practice
Chapter 2
-	High availability and durability for Azure Storage
-	Backing up Azure File Shares and Operational Backup for Blobs
02_02	Backing up Azure File Shares and Blobs Demo
02_03	Disaster recovery and failover
02_04	Object replication for blob data
Chapter 3
03_01	Storage account firewalls and virtual network access
03_02	Private endpoints for Azure Storage
03_03	Create and manage a storage Account with Azure PowerShell
03_03	Executing Azure PowerShell in scripts with the Cloud Shell code editor
03_04	Create and manage a Storage Account with the Azure CLI
-	Deploy infrastructure for Azure Storage using Azure Bicep
03_05	Deploy infrastructure for Azure Storage using Azure Bicep Demo
Chapter 4
04_01	The control plane and the data plane
04_02	Authorize with shared Keys
04_03	Authorize operations with Azure AD and Azure RBAC
04_04	Authorize operations with Azure AD and Azure ABAC Storage
04_05	Accessing storage account data from other Azure Services
04_05	Enable passwordless Azure AD based access to Azure Storage
04_06	Shared Access Signatures and Access delegation
Chapter 5
05_01	Setting up Azure File Sync
05_02	Mounting a file share to Windows Server
05_03	Mounting a file share to Linux
Chapter 6
06_01	Encryption at rest and in transit
06_01	Encryption at rest, encryption scopes and encryption in transit in practice
06_02	Soft delete and versioning for blobs, containers and file shares
-	Change feed for blob data
06_03	Point in time restore for blob data
06_04	Immutable storage for business-critical blob data
Chapter 7
	Billing, Reserved Capacity and network routing preference for Azure Storage
-	Storage tiers and blob rehydration
07_02	Manage storage tiers for blobs and files
07_03	Lifecycle management policies and rules
07_04	Monitoring Azure Storage
07_04	Monitoring Azure Storage with Storage Insights and Workbooks
further_reading	Learning more about Azure Storage Management

Within each folder is a chapter-X-readme.md file, this contains the commands to be run in the cloudshell to create each environment. The environments allow you to follow along with the videos.

Installing

The bicep files are designed to be run in Azure Cloudshell. You do not require anything installed locally to use the bicep files. However, if you would like to study the files locally I recommend the following:

1. Install VS Code

2. Add the following extensions to VSCode:

   • Bicep

   • Azure tools

   • Python

   • Azure CLI Tools

   • PowerShell in Visual Studio Code

   • Avro Data Preview

To use the bicep, python and script files in Azure Cloudshell, clone the repository within the cloudshell, CD to the appropriate directory for your video and execute the commands from the chapter-X-readme.md file at the cloudshell command line. For help with Cloudshell, checkout the quickstart

There are also further tools shown in the demos, to use these tools you can install from the following links:

3. Get started with azcopy

4. Azure Storage Explorer

5. WinSCP for Windows

Instructor

Nicole Stevens

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