Provide storage for the public website – Codango® / Codango.Com

Objective:

the objective of the exercise requires us to to design and implement a secure, scalable, and reliable storage solution for public website assets, ensuring high availability and optimal performance for users worldwide.

In other to create a storage account with high availability, the follow steps are to be followed;

Step1:

Create a storage account to support the public website.

In the portal, search for and select Storage accounts
Select + Create.
For resource group select new. Give your resource group a name and select OK.
Resource group for this project known as publicwebsiterg created

select + create to create a storage account name
Select Review and then Create

Wait for the storage account to deploy, and then select Go to resource.

Step2: This storage requires high availability if there’s a regional outage. Additionally, enable read access to the secondary region

In the storage account, in the Data management section, select the Redundancy blade
Ensure Read-access Geo-redundant storage is selected.

Review the primary and secondary location information.

Step3: Information on the public website should be accessible without requiring customers to login.

In the storage account, in the Settings section, select the Configuration blade.
Ensure the Allow blob anonymous access setting is Enabled.
Be sure to Save your changes.

Create a blob storage container with anonymous read access

Step1: The public website has various images and documents. Create a blob storage container for the content. Learn more about storage containers.

In your storage account, in the Data storage section, select the Containers blade.
Select + Container.
Ensure the Name of the container is public
Select Create.

Customers should be able to view the images without being authenticated. Configure anonymous read access for the public container blobs

Select your public container
On the Overview blade, select Change access level.

-Ensure the Public access level is Blob (anonymous read access for blobs only)

Select OK.

Practice uploading files and testing access.

For testing, upload a file to the public container. The type of file doesn’t matter. A small image or text file is a good choice.

Ensure you are viewing your container.
Select Upload
Browse to files and select a file. Browse to a file of your choice.
Select Upload.
Close the upload window, Refresh the page and ensure your file was uploaded.

Determine the URL for your uploaded file. Open a browser and test the URL

Select your uploaded file.
On the Overview tab, copy the URL.
Paste the URL into a new browser tab.
If you have uploaded an image file it will display in the browser

Configure soft delete

Go to the Overview blade of the storage account.

On the Properties page, locate the Blob service section.
Select the Blob soft delete setting.
Ensure the Enable soft delete for blobs is checked.
Change the Keep deleted blobs for (in days) setting to 21
Notice you can also Enable soft delete for containers.
Don’t forget to Save your changes.

2. If something gets deleted, you need to practice using soft delete to restore the files.

Navigate to your container where you uploaded a file.
Select the file you uploaded and then select Delete.
Select OK to confirm deleting the file.

Refresh the container and confirm the file has been restored.
On the container Overview page, toggle the slider Show deleted blobs. This toggle is to the right of the search box.
Select your deleted file, and use the ellipses on the far right, to Undelete the file.
Refresh the container and confirm the file has been restored.