Introduction

In this blog, you will see how to retrieve and refresh Azure Storage Account Access Keys using PowerShell.
Prerequisites
Install Azure PowerShell Module to run the script.
PowerShell Script
Open Notepad and paste the below code. Save the file as script.ps1.
  1. ################# Azure Blob Storage - PowerShell ####################
  3. ## Input Parameters
  4. $resourceGroupName="azpractice"
  5. $storageAccountName="azstorageacc1122020"
  7. ## Connect to Azure Account
  8. Connect-AzAccount
  10. ## Function to retrive and refresh access keys
  11. Function RetriveRefreshKeys
  12. {
  13. Write-Host -ForegroundColor Green "Retrieving the storage accounts keys..."
  15. ## Get the storage account keys
  16. $storageAccColl=Get-AzStorageAccount
  17. $storageAccountKey1 = (Get-AzStorageAccountKey -ResourceGroupName $resourceGroupName -Name $storageAccountName).Value[0]
  18. $storageAccountKey2= (Get-AzStorageAccountKey -ResourceGroupName $resourceGroupName -Name $storageAccountName).Value[1]
  20. Write-Host -ForegroundColor Yellow "Storage Account Key 1: " $storageAccountKey1
  21. Write-Host -ForegroundColor Yellow "Storage Account Key 2: " $storageAccountKey2
  23. Write-Host -ForegroundColor Green "Refreshing the storage accounts key (2)..."
  25. ## Refresh the storage account key 2
  26. New-AzStorageAccountKey -ResourceGroupName $resourceGroupName -Name $storageAccountName -KeyName key2
  28. ## Retrive storage account key 2
  29. $storageAccountKey2= (Get-AzStorageAccountKey -ResourceGroupName $resourceGroupName -Name $storageAccountName).Value[1]
  30. Write-Host -ForegroundColor Yellow "Storage Account Key 2: " $storageAccountKey2
  31. }
  33. RetriveRefreshKeys
  35. ## Disconnect from Azure Account
  36. Disconnect-AzAccount
Open PowerShell window and navigate to the location where the script file was saved. Run the following command.
./script.ps1
Result
Summary
Thus, in this blog, you saw how to retrieve and refresh Azure Storage Account Access Keys using PowerShell.