How to Retrieve and Refresh Azure Storage Account Access Keys using PowerShell

In this blog, you will see how to retrieve and refresh Azure Storage Account Access Keys using PowerShell.

Introduction 

In this blog, you will see how to retrieve and refresh Azure Storage Account Access Keys using PowerShell.

 

Prerequisites

 

Install Azure PowerShell Module to run the script.

 

PowerShell Script

 

Open Notepad and paste the below code. Save the file as script.ps1.

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

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

## Connect to Azure Account
Connect-AzAccount

## Function to retrive and refresh access keys
Function RetriveRefreshKeys
{
    Write-Host -ForegroundColor Green "Retrieving the storage accounts keys..."

    ## Get the storage account keys
    $storageAccColl=Get-AzStorageAccount
    $storageAccountKey1 = (Get-AzStorageAccountKey -ResourceGroupName $resourceGroupName -Name $storageAccountName).Value[0]
    $storageAccountKey2= (Get-AzStorageAccountKey -ResourceGroupName $resourceGroupName -Name $storageAccountName).Value[1]

    Write-Host -ForegroundColor Yellow "Storage Account Key 1: " $storageAccountKey1
    Write-Host -ForegroundColor Yellow "Storage Account Key 2: " $storageAccountKey2

    Write-Host -ForegroundColor Green "Refreshing the storage accounts key (2)..."

    ## Refresh the storage account key 2
    New-AzStorageAccountKey -ResourceGroupName $resourceGroupName -Name $storageAccountName -KeyName key2

    ## Retrive storage account key 2
    $storageAccountKey2= (Get-AzStorageAccountKey -ResourceGroupName $resourceGroupName -Name $storageAccountName).Value[1]
    Write-Host -ForegroundColor Yellow "Storage Account Key 2: " $storageAccountKey2
}

RetriveRefreshKeys

## Disconnect from Azure Account
Disconnect-AzAccount

  

Open PowerShell window and navigate to the location where the script file was saved. Run the following command.

 

./script.ps1

 

Result

 

 

 

 

Summary

 

Thus, in this blog, you saw how to retrieve and refresh Azure Storage Account Access Keys using PowerShell.