Exploring Storage Explorer

Introduction

 

This article will help you learn the process of downloading & connecting to a Storage Explorer.

 

This article will cover the following:

• Brief concepts of Storage Explorer
• Installing and Connecting to Storage Explorer

Before reading this article, please go through some important articles mentioned below,

• Exploring Azure Blob Storage Tiers
• Quick Start With Azure Storage
• A Detailed Overview Of Azure Storage Account Creation
• A Detailed Overview Of Blob Storage

Azure Storage

 

Azure Storage is one of the cloud computing PaaS (Platform as a Service) services provided by the Microsoft Azure team. It provides cloud storage that is highly available, secure, durable, scalable, and redundant. It is massively scalable and elastic. It can store and process hundreds of terabytes of data or you can store the small amounts of data required for a small business website.

 

Here, we will see about Storage Explorer.

 

About Storage Explorer

 

Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer is a standalone app that makes it easy to work with Azure Storage data on Windows, macOS, and Linux. It allows you to efficiently connect and manage your Azure storage service accounts and resources across subscriptions. You can able to create, delete, view, and edit resources in Azure Storage, Azure Cosmos DB, and Data Lake Storage.

 

Azure Storage Explorer is a useful GUI tool for inspecting the data in your Azure cloud storage projects including the logs of your cloud-hosted applications. You can easily connect to your subscription and manipulate your tables, blobs, queues, and files.

 

Create the Blob Storage in Azure Portal

 

Prerequisites

• Microsoft Azure Account.

Follow the below steps to create an Azure Storage Account.

 

Step 1

 

Log in here. Please go through the article mentioned below for creating a Storage account mentioned below.

• A Detailed Overview Of Azure Storage Account Creation

After creating the storage account, navigate to the blobs.

 

 

Step 2 - Create Container

 

Step 3 - Create Blob

 

Here is the dashboard of Azure Blob Storage. Since this container is new, it won't yet contain any blobs. Now Select the Upload button to upload a blob to the container

• Browse your local file system to find a file to upload as a block blob, and select Upload. And also Click on the "Advanced" tab to choose type of

 

• Authentication type - Azure Storage supports authentication for the Blob services. Use shared access signatures (SAS) to grant fine-grained access to resources in your storage account
• Blob Type – Choose your blob type
• Block Size – Its starts from 64 KB to 100 MB
• Upload to the folder – Here, you can upload folder.

• Blob getting uploaded

Step 5

• Blob uploaded

• Blob dashboard overview - It contains the image URL, type, size etc. Copy the URL and paste it on the address tab

 

 

Step 6

 

Click here to Download and Install Storage Explorer. In the dropdown box, you can choose windows, macOS, Linux

 

 

Step 7

 

Now, accept the agreement and click on Install

 

 

Step 8

 

Choose your default folder and click on Next

 

 

Step 9

 

After that, set up a shortcut icon and click on Next

 

 

You will get this message.

 

 

Step10

 

Now, click on finish.

 

Step 11

 

Now, your Storage Explorer is successfully installed. Next, we have to connect your storage account. So, first we will see how to connect with our Azure account. So choose the  Add an Azure Account option and hit next.

 

 

Step 12

 

Next, enter your Azure credentials

 

 

Step 12

 

Next, choose your subscription.

 

 

Output

 

Now, we can see all our corresponding storage accounts.

 

 

Summary

 

I hope you understood about Storage Explorer. Stay tuned for more articles on Storage Explorer.