Introduction

This guided project focuses on deploying a static website using Azure Blob Storage.

Azure Blob Storage can serve HTML, CSS, and image files directly to browsers without a web server. When you enable the static website hosting feature on a storage account, Azure creates a public endpoint and a special container where you upload your site files.

Scenario

Your marketing team needs to publish a product landing page quickly without provisioning virtual machines or web servers. The team wants to upload content, verify it's live, push an update, and confirm the change—all through the Azure portal.

• Exercise 1 - Create a storage account and enable static website hosting.
• Exercise 2 - Upload HTML content and verify the live site.
• Exercise 3 - Update the site content and confirm the change.

By the end of this project, you have a working public website hosted entirely from blob storage, and you understand how to publish and update content with minimal cost.

Skilling areas

In this project, you practice skills in the following areas:

Create and configure a storage account

• Create a resource group and storage account.
• Enable static website hosting and configure index and error documents.
• Locate the primary endpoint URL.

Upload and manage blob content

• Upload HTML files to the $web container.
• Overwrite existing blobs to publish content updates.
• Review blob properties including access tier and content type.

Verify a public endpoint

• Browse to the static website endpoint and confirm content.
• Test a custom 404 error page.
• Verify that content updates appear immediately.