Create climate monitor Azure resources

We need to create the following resources:

1. Azure Event Hub that will receive data from Azure IoT Central.
2. Azure Stream Analytics Service to process and normalize the data from IoT Central.
3. Azure Storage to store the data.

For more information, refer to Create a storage account.

Install the Azure CLI tools

If you haven't installed the Azure CLI tools then follow the How to install the Azure CLI guide to install the Azure CLI on your computer.

Login into your Azure subscription

From a command prompt, run the following command to login to your Azure account.

az login

Generate list of Azure locations

List the Azure Locations to determine the location closest to you.

az account list-locations -o table

Create a resource group

The following command will create a resource group at location westus. Replace this location with your preferred location from the location list. A resource group is an administrative unit that keeps all related services together.

az group create --name ClimateMonitor --location westus

Create an Azure Storage account

Climate data from the Altair emulator will be stored in an Azure Storage Account for analysis.

Create an Azure Storage account environment variable

An Azure Storage Account must have a globally unique name. Append lower case characters to the end of workspacestorage. For example, a unique Azure Storage Account name could be workspacestoragedng.

Create the Azure Storage Account

az storage account create -n workspacestorage<append_unique_letters> -g WorkSpaces --sku Standard_LRS

Get the Azure Storage Account connection string

az storage account show-connection-string -n <REPLACE_WITH_NAME_OF_STORAGE_ACCOUNT_CREATED> -g WorkSpaces 

Save the Azure Storage Account connection string somewhere safe as you'll need it when exporting data from IoT Central.

Create an Azure Storage Account Container

az storage container create --name workspaces --account-name  workspacestorage<append_unique_letters> --connection-string "REPLACE_WITH_STORAGE_ACCOUNT_CONNECTION_STRING"