Azure Storage is one of the most basic and most important services available in Azure. Combined with Azure virtual machines, it is the backbone of most cloud applications hosted in Azure. By default, each storage account is available publicly—however, in many cases, you will want to limit access possibilities by encapsulating it inside a virtual network. That may be enforced by policies in your company, an InfoSec audit, or the industry you are working in. In this section, we will discuss the actual solution of enabling Virtual Network (VNet) integration and its features.
To get ready, you will need a Storage account that we will use for this exercise—to create one, we will use the Azure CLI with the following commands:
- Creating a new Azure Storage instance is pretty simple—all you will need is this basic command:
$ az storage account create --resource-group "<rg-name>" --name "<account...
