Storage Queue Demo

This project is done in scope of my preparation to the AZ-204 exam, its main aim is to collect most important info in terms of azure storage queues and express it as simple as possible.

Project structure

The key components are:

• Azure storage account (General purpose v2)
• Azure storage queue
• Message sender application (.NET)
• Message consumer application (.NET)

Managing infrastructure

Obviously, we have to maintain a basic azure infrastructure such as azure storage account + queue. Let's perform it using azure CLI following the commands

• az login
• az account set --subscription <id or name>
• az group create --name "storage-queue-demo-rg" --location "westus"
• az storage account create --name "pkolosovstorage" --resource-group "storage-queue-demo-rg"
• az storage queue create --name "pkolosov-storage-queue" --account-name "pkolosovstorage"

So the infrastructure is utilized.

Required Nuget packages

• Azure.Storage.Queues

To install: dotnet add package Azure.Storage.Queues

Settings

Both apps, consumer and sender must have azure storage account connection string of the following format

• DefaultEndpointsProtocol=https;AccountName=pkolosovstorage;AccountKey=;EndpointSuffix=core.windows.net
• Set it as environment variable using powershell: $env:AZURE_STORAGE_ACCOUT = 'DefaultEndpointsProtocol=https;AccountName=pkolosovstorage;AccountKey=;EndpointSuffix=core.windows.net'

It could be checked at azure portal at: storage accout -> access keys as per screenshot below