How to Get All the Containers From a Specific Azure Storage Account using PowerShell

In this blog, you will see how to get all the containers from a specific Azure Storage Account using PowerShell.

Introduction

 

In this blog, you will see how to get all the containers from a specific Azure Storage Account using PowerShell.

 

Prerequisites

 

Install Azure PowerShell Module to run the script.

 

PowerShell Script

 

Open Notepad and paste the following script. Save the file as script.ps1.

################# Azure Blob Storage - PowerShell ####################

## Input Parameters
$resourceGroupName="azpractice"
$storageAccName="azstorageacc1122020"

## Connect to Azure Account
Connect-AzAccount

## Function to get all the containers
Function GetAllStorageContainer
{
    Write-Host -ForegroundColor Green "Retrieving storage container.."
    ## Get the storage account from which container has to be retrieved
    $storageAcc=Get-AzStorageAccount -ResourceGroupName $resourceGroupName -Name $storageAccName
    ## Get the storage account context
    $ctx=$storageAcc.Context
    ## List all the containers
    $containers=Get-AzStorageContainer  -Context $ctx
    foreach($container in $containers)
    {
        write-host -ForegroundColor Yellow $container.Name
    }
}

GetAllStorageContainer

## Disconnect from Azure Account
Disconnect-AzAccount

Open a Windows PowerShell window and navigate to the location where the script file was saved.

 

Run the following command.

.\script.ps1 

 

Result

 

All container names will be displayed.

 

Reference

 

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/az.storage/get-azstoragecontainer?view=azps-3.3.0

 

Watch here a full video to learn more about Azure Container Instance.

 

 

Summary

 

In this blog, you learned how to get all the containers from a specific Azure Storage Account using PowerShell.