Create Container

Updated: November 1, 2013

Applies To: System Center 2012 R2 Orchestrator, System Center 2012 SP1 - Orchestrator

The Create Container activity creates a new container under the specified account. It is part of the Azure Storage category activity.

Note

Currently, this activity will not fail if a container already exists with the same name as the container to create. No new container wil be created, but the activity will succeed in Orchestrator.

The activity publishes all of the data from the required and optional properties into published data. The following tables list the required and optional properties and published data for this activity.

Create Container Required Properties

Element

Description

Valid values

Storage Account Name

The name of the storage account. 

String

Container Name

A name for the container. 

String

Create Container Optional Properties

Element

Description

Valid values

Primary Key

The primary key associated with the storage account.

String

Metadata

Metadata to associate with the container. Should be in the format "Name1:Value1,Name2:Value2"

String

Public Access Level

Specifies whether data in the container may be accessed publicly and the level of access.

Off, Container, Blob

Create Container Published Data

Element

Description

Value type

Container Name

The name of the container. 

String

Container Url

The absolute URI to the container.

String

ETag

The entity tag for the container. 

String

Last Modified Time (UTC)

Returns the date and time the container was last modified.

Datetime

Metadata

Metadata associated with the container in the format "Name1:Value1,Name2:Value2"

String

Public Access Level

Specifies whether data in the container may be accessed publicly and the level of access.

String

Storage Account Name

The name of the storage account. 

String

See Also

Other Resources

Using Runbooks in System Center 2012 - Orchestrator