Create a new ASP.NET Web API to handle files in Azure Page blobs store virtual hard drive (VHD) files and serve as disks for Azure virtual machines. Page blobs store random access files up to 8 TiB in size. Append blobs are ideal for scenarios such as logging data from virtual machines. Append blobs are made up of blocks like block blobs but are optimized for append operations. Block blobs can store up to about 190.7 TiB. Block blobs are made up of blocks of data that can be managed individually. Block blobs store text and binary data. Inside our API, we could actually check against file type and place the file inside the correct container, if we were to organize the files uploaded to the API.Īzure Storage supports three types of blobs: The diagram above shows the relationship between these resources. A blob (file/document/video/etc…) inside the container.the container(s) inside the storage account.Blob storage offers three different types of resources: To give you a brief understanding of how Azure Blob Storage works, I have decided to include this section. Quick Introduction to Azure Blob Storage Azure Blob Storage We are now ready to move on to the implementation of logic inside our Web API to make CRUD operations on our Azure Blob Storage using ASP.NET Core Web API. We have to place this key inside our Web API project, leave the page here for now and go back to copy the connection string in a moment. Click the button “Show Keys” to reveal your connection string. You can find that in the menu on your left as well. To gain access to our Azure Storage account and thereby our newly created Blob Container, we need a connection string. Create a new Blob Container in Storage Account Get Access Keys for Azure Storage Account (Connection String)
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Check the image below to get an overview of how to do it. This means that we have to create a new blob container.
Create a Blob Container at the Storage AccountĬlick on the Storage Account and select Container in the menu on your left side.įor us to store a file/document, we need a blob container inside that same storage account. I changed the name of my storage account to “ webapiazurestorage” instead of “ testwebapi“. Select newly created Storage Account in Azure On the overview page of your storage accounts, you now got the option to open up that storage account by clicking it, and configuring it. Review new storage account at Microsoft Azure If you are happy with the settings, then click the Create button at the bottom of the page. If you take a look at the top of the page, you will see that the validation has passed. Here you can go through all the details for your new storage account. When you click the Review + Create button, you will be taken to the Review page (the storage account has not been created yet). I will just continue by clicking Review + Create at the bottom of the page. If you want to you can go through all the menus and configure every little detail. Choose Redundancy (I have switched mine to LRS – Locally Redundant Storage for this example).īasics – Create a new storage account at Microsoft Azure.Select Performance (You will be fine with Standard).Select Region (I’m from Denmark, so I have chosen West Europe).You will then be presented to a page, where you can select your subscription and the resource group you would like this storage account to appear in.īelow that, you have to fill in some instance details like: You will now be able to create a new storage account, by using the “ Create” button as seen in the image below: Storage Accounts – Microsoft Azure Open up the Azure Portal and search for Storage Accounts and open that page. I won’t get in touch with those in this article. You can also pick other services like Azure Data Lake, Files, Azure Queues, and Azure Tables. Azure cloud storage includes Azure Blobs (objects) that we will use in this article. This is used to provide the managed service from Microsoft delivering the cloud storage. The first thing we have to do is to create a Storage Account in our Azure Portal. Since I often read about others who would like to get started with Azure and work with applications in the cloud, I thought it would be a good idea to share my findings and knowledge about this little project. The solution I ended up making contained a database and container with the file service API hosted at Azure and then two web services at each organization consuming the API for new files.
This article is made because I got a task the other day, where I had to share files between two organizations using Azure. Often when working with web applications, APIs, or basically any other application, we are interacting with files in one way or another. In this article, I will show you how to use Azure Blob Storage with ASP.NET Core.
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