Now I started shipping some blog posts. I was thinking that as a first exercice in Azure to publish my blog online using Azure services. 2 birds, one stone :)

We will be looking into Azure Storage, Azure CDN and may be some GitHub action trying to automate all of this.

Static website in Azure Blob Storage

Azure Storage provides different data services ranging from blobs (think AWS S3 or Google Cloud Storage) to volumes for VMs, noSQL databases and file shares. For our purposes, for our objective, we are interested in Azure Blobs.

The idea is to serve our static webpages, instead of hosting them in a web server, we upload our files in an Azure Blob and serve them to our users using Azure CDN (Content Delivery Network).

To do that, we need an Azure Account Storage, which will be in an Azure subscription and linked to a Ressource Group. In this Storage Account, we create a Container. Once we have the container w upload our files as blobs (I used block blobs).

We can’t yet access our static files from a browser, because we need to enable the “Static Webstite” capability in the Storage Account.

SEE YA IN THE NEXT ONE