Upgrade to Microsoft Edge to take advantage of the latest features, security updates, and technical support. You can use Blob Storage to gather or expose media, content, or application data to can you freeze feta cheese. In this how-to article, you learn how to work with container objects within the Azure portal. Prerequisites To access Azure Storage, you’ll need an Azure subscription.

If you don’t already have a subscription, create a free account before you begin. All access to Azure Storage takes place through a storage account. For help with creating a storage account, see Create a storage account. Create a container A container organizes a set of blobs, similar to a directory in a file system.

A storage account can include an unlimited number of containers, and a container can store an unlimited number of blobs. In the portal navigation pane on the left side of the screen, select Storage accounts and choose a storage account. If the navigation pane isn’t visible, select the menu button to toggle its visibility. In the navigation pane for the storage account, scroll to the Data storage section and select Containers.

Container button to open the New container pane. Within the New Container pane, provide a Name for your new container. For more information about container and blob names, see Naming and referencing containers, blobs, and metadata. Set the Public access level for the container. For information about preventing anonymous public access to blob data, see Overview: Remediating anonymous public read access for blob data.

Select Create to create the container. Read container properties and metadata A container exposes both system properties and user-defined metadata. System properties exist on each Blob Storage resource. Some properties are read-only, while others can be read or set. User-defined metadata consists of one or more name-value pairs that you specify for a Blob Storage resource.