blob_storage

Environment Variables

Change example.env to .env

• STORAGE_ACCOUNT Url for blob storage account, usually of the form https://<storage account name>.blob.core.windows.net/
• CONTAINER_NAME Name of container to interact with, for example usercontent
• BLOB_NAME Name of the blob to interact with, for example test.txt

Install Dependencies

1. Change into the /azure/blob_storage directory
2. Create a virtual environment
3. pip install -r requirements.txt

Execution Order

All of the examples have guards if they are run before preconditions are met. The recomended order to run things and have something actually happen is

1. create_container.py
2. list_containers.py
3. upload_blob.py
4. list_blobs.py
5. download_blob.py

Key Terms

• Storage Account An umbrella for many types of storage assets such as blob storage, queues and file shares
• Blob Storage A type of storage that treats files as binary blobs that can be treated as blocks or content that can be streamed using REST calls
• Container A collection of blobs in a storage account
• Blob An individual binary stored in a container that can be accessed as a block or streamed content

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