Exercise - Resource Lock

Create a resource

• Sign in to the Azure portal at https://portal.azure.com
• Select Create a resource.
• Under Categories, select Storage.
• Under Storage Account, select Create.
• On the Basics tab of the Create storage account blade, fill in the following information. Leave the defaults for everything else.
  • Resource group: Create new > Name: demo-azure
  • Storage account name: demoazurestorageaccount
  • Location: default
  • Performance: Standard
  • Redundancy: Locally redundant storage (LRS)
• Select Review + Create to review your storage account settings and allow Azure to validate the configuration.
• Once validated, select Create. Wait for the notification that the account was successfully created.
• Select Go to resource.

Apply a read-only resource lock

• Scroll down until you find the Settings section of the blade on the left of the screen.
• Select Locks.
• Select + Add.
• Enter a Lock name: sa-readlock
• Verify the Lock type is set to Read-only.
• Select OK.

Add a container to the storage account

• Scroll up until you find the Data storage section of the blade on the left of the screen.
• Select Containers.
• Select + Container.
• Enter a container name and select Create.
• You should receive an error message: Failed to create storage container.

Modify the resource lock

• Scroll down until you find the Settings section of the blade on the left of the screen.
• Select Locks.
• Select the read-only resource lock you created.
• Change the Lock type to Delete and select OK.

Create a storage container

• Scroll up until you find the Data storage section of the blade on the left of the screen.
• Select Containers.
• Select + Container.
• Enter a container name and select Create.
• Your storage container should appear in your list of containers.

Delete the storage account

• Scroll up until you find Overview at the top of the blade on the left of the screen.
• Select Overview.
• Select Delete.
• You should get a notification letting you know you can't delete the resource because it has a delete lock. In order to delete the storage account, you'll need to remove the delete lock.

Remove the delete lock

• Select your storage account name in the breadcrumb at the top of the screen.
• Scroll down until you find the Settings section of the blade on the left of the screen.
• Select Locks.
• Select Delete.

Delete the storage account

• Select Home in the breadcrumb at the top of the screen.
• Select Storage accounts
• Select the storage account you used for this exercise.
• Select Delete.