Continuation  from Part –2. A storage account can contain zero or more containers. A container contains properties, metadata, and zero or more blobs. A blob is any single entity comprised of binary data, properties, and metadata.

 

Lets create a storage container under storage account we created in Part-2

Steps

1. Open PowerShell window and import the Azure PowerShell Module

Import-Module “C:Program Files (x86)Microsoft SDKsAzurePowerShell ServiceManagementAzureAzure.psd1”

1. Import the Credentials Publishing settings

Import-AzurePublishSettingsFile C:AzureAzure_credentials_file.publishsettings

1. Get details of Azure Storage Accounts

Get-AzureStorageAccount | SELECT StorageAccountName,Location,EndPoints |Format-Custom

1. Create the container under any of the account listed in step3. To create the container you require subscription Name,StorageAccountName,storageaccountkey to create AzureStorageContext.

Get-AzureSubscription PS C:> $subscriptionName = “subscription name” PS C:> $storageAccountName = “storage account name” PS C:> Select-AzureSubscription $subscriptionName PS C:> $storageaccountkey = get-azurestoragekey $storageAccountName | %{$_.Primary} PS C:> $destContext = New-AzureStorageContext -StorageAccountName $storageAccountName -StorageAccountKey $storageaccountkey PS C:> New-AzureStorageContainer testcontainer1 -Permission Off -Context $destContext