Azure Basics – Creating a File Share

Do you want to have some file shares stored in Azure in a Serverless mode? this is your post then, just follow the directions and will be done within minutes.

The first thing you need is a Storage Account, which can be created following this post.

When the storage account is OK and ready to serve content, we are go to create a new file share, which will be accesible and mountable transparently in the main Operative Systems like (obviously) Windows, Linux and MacOS.

Let’s go! go to the Storage Account and search for File Share, like this.

Now hit the +File Share, just like the image shows.

Now type the name of the file share and choose the tier of the storage, as this is a test, I chose the Cool tier to save some money.

When done creating the File Share, enter the unit and check the Connect button.

This will show the script to mount the unit in our favourite OS, just choose between Windows, Linux or macOS.

In this case, I will mount the unit in a Windows PC, so I just have to copy the script in a PowerShell sesssion, when the execution ends it will show something like this.

And The unit will be shown in the Windows Explorer aside of the other network units, and it’s ready to drop files inside.

If the unit is working properly, (there are no reasons not to), the files copied to the unit will be shown in the unit if we browse the content in the Azure portal web interface, like this.

Easy as this! the Azure File Share is created and operative, ready to be used by the users!