Developing Cloud Applications with Windows Azure Storage: Blobs
- 3/15/2013
- Blob basics
- Blob containers
- Blob addressing
- Business use cases
- Blob storage structure
- Navigating blob container hierarchies
- Storage Client library blob types
- Container and blob naming rules
- Performing create, read, update, and delete blob operations
- Shared Access Signatures and shared access policies
- Blob attributes and metadata
- Conditional operations
- Blob leases
- Using block blobs
- Using page blobs
- Blob snapshots
- Continuation tokens and blobs
- Conclusion
Conclusion
The purpose of this chapter was to provide you with a thorough understanding of how to securely perform data operations against the blob storage service. You were first introduced to how primary data operations are accomplished against the two kinds of blobs supported by Windows Azure storage and the organizations container structure that encapsulates them. You learned how to navigate this structure as if it was a hierarchical directory using the storage API and about the metadata that can be used to augment them.
This chapter then explained the special high-value use of public anonymous containers for supplying Internet-addressable content to your applications. Finally, you learned about many advanced features, such as conditional operations, leases, Shared Access Signatures, Shared Access Policies, snapshots, and continuation tokens.