Creating, reading, updating, and deleting data using the appropriate APIs

Before we can create, read, update, and delete data using the APIs, first, we need to create a Cosmos DB in Azure. We will do this in the following subsection.

Creating a Cosmos DB

You can create a Cosmos DB using the Azure portal, PowerShell, the CLI, or ARM templates. In this demonstration, we are going to create a Cosmos DB server, database, and container from the Azure portal. To do this, perform the following steps:

1. Navigate to the Azure portal by going to https://portal.azure.com.
2. Click Create a resource, type Azure Cosmos DB into the search bar, and create a new database server.
3. Add the following values:

   a) Subscription: Pick a subscription.

   b) Resource group: Create a new one and call it PacktCosmosResourceGroup.

   c) Account name: packtsqlapi.

   d) API: Core (SQL).

   e) Notebooks (preview): Off.

   f) Location: East US.

   g) Capacity mode: Provisioned throughput.

   h) Apply Free Tier...