Creating a data lake filesystem
A storage account is a container resource for multiple different services that you can implement. The first step is to tell the storage account what you want to create. The four services that are part of a storage account are as follows:
- Queues
- Tables
- File shares
- Containers
You can see a tile for each of these options on the Overview blade as shown in Figure 10.8:
Figure 10.8 – Storage account Overview blade
Queues enable application developers to set up the asynchronous processing of events by having an application put messages in a queue and having another system process these messages. The Tables feature is a NoSQL key-value database. File shares are used when you have multiple Azure virtual machines that need access to the same files using the Server Message Blocks (SMB) protocol. When implementing a data lake, you need to create one or more containers. Here's the fourth option:
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