Why use Blob Storage

• an object store optimised for storing massive amounts of unstructured data

To create a blob storage, you must first create a storage account

• Storage Accounts contain containers
• containers can contain blobs

In Python, working with blob storage involves interacting with three libraries

• BlobServiceClient, BlobClient, ContainerClient for Blob Storage/container manipulation
• azure.identity for IAM

Naming conventions

• each container must be unique per account. To generate unique container names, you can use uuid, which stands for (Universal Unique Identifier).

Steps to connecting to Blob Storage

• Prereq: You must have a connection string to a set up storage account

1. Create a blob service client object based on your connection string

blob_service_client = BlobServiceClient.from_connection_string(connect_str)

2. Get or create a container