Installing and using Azure Storage Explorer
- Navigate to https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/features/storage-explorer/ to download the application.
- Once it has been downloaded, install the application.
- When the application is installed, open the application. You will be prompted to connect to your Azure environment. There are a couple of options to choose from. You can add an Azure account by connecting to your Azure environment using your administrator credentials, use a shared access signature (which will be covered later in this chapter), use a storage account name and key, and you can select the Attach to a local emulator option if you so desire. For this demonstration, keep the default option selected and click on Sign in:
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- Will be prompted for Azure login and password, please enter it:
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- Apply the your subscription
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- Under Storage Accounts, we should be able to see the storage account we created in previous labs
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- Lets create a blob container, by right-clicking on Blob Containers > Create Blob Container
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- Give Blob Containers a name and hit enter
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- Lets upload some content in our blob container
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- And it is our file is upload
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- Lets verify the file uploaded from storage explorer appears in Azure portal or not
Go to Storage Account, then select your storage account
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- Search for blob, then select Blobs
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- Now select your blob container get inside it
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- And here we are with file uploaded from Storage explorer
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