Hands-on exercises

To support your learning with some practical skills, we will utilize the concepts and understanding we gained from this chapter and put them to practical use.

We will look at the following exercises:

• Exercise – creating a storage account
• Exercise – creating a standard performance Azure file share
• Exercise – creating a premium performance Azure file share

Getting started

To get started with this section, you will need access to the Azure portal with an account with Owner or Contributor access to an Azure subscription.

Let’s move on to the exercise for this chapter.

Exercise – creating a storage account

In this exercise, we will create a storage account.

Follow these steps to get started:

1. Log into the Azure portal at https://portal.azure.com. Alternatively, you can use the Azure Desktop app: https://portal.azure.com/App/Download.
2. In the search bar, type storage account; click on...