Chapter 1: Working with Azure Blob Storage
Azure Blob storage is a highly scalable and durable object-based cloud storage solution from Microsoft. Blob storage is optimized to store large amounts of unstructured data such as log files, images, video, and audio.
It is an important data source in structuring an Azure data engineering solution. Blob storage can be used as a data source and destination. As a source, it can be used to stage unstructured data, such as application logs, images, and video and audio files. As a destination, it can be used to store the result of a data pipeline.
In this chapter, we'll learn to read, write, manage, and secure Azure Blob storage and will cover the following recipes:
- Provisioning an Azure storage account using the Azure portal
- Provisioning an Azure storage account using PowerShell
- Creating containers and uploading files to Azure Blob storage using PowerShell
- Managing blobs in Azure Storage using PowerShell
- Managing...