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Building an Azure Storage Function with ChatGpt Assistance

Overview

In this challenge, you will create a storage account in Azure and use Azure Functions to perform actions on the stored data. You will learn how to create, manage, and interact with data stored in Azure storage, and how to use Azure Functions to perform actions on that data. In the Optional advanced challenge, you will use Azure Computer Vision, Storage Account, and Azure Functions to read text from an image. This challenge is designed to help you understand how to integrate multiple Azure services to build a practical solution.

Goals

• Create a storage account in Azure
• Upload data to the storage account using Azure Functions

Provided Setup

• An Azure account
• Access to the Azure portal
• ChatGPT access
• An example of an Azure function that uploads data to an Azure Storage account
• Validation script

AI assistance

• ChatGPT or use Bing Search ChatGPT

Tools

• Postman agent
• Visual Studio (In case you do not have Visual Studio installed in your machine you can create a VM with "Visual Studio 2022" Image)

Description

The challenge consists of the following steps:

1. Create a storage account in Azure
2. Create an Azure Functions project in Visual Studio or the Azure portal
3. Write a function to upload a sample data to the storage account

Success Criteria

• A storage account is created in Azure
• The sample data is uploaded to the storage account using Azure Functions

Main Challenge

1. Create a storage account in Azure
2. Create an Azure Functions project
3. Write a function to upload sample data to the storage account

Hints

• Create a Resource Group with the name of your Team (example: Team1, Team2 ...)
• You can use ChatGPT's suggestions and guideness (specify the context, set relationship and specify the goals) Prompt example.
• The sample data can be a simple text file with the content "Hello World" and a filename of "GPT".
• The Azure Functions project can be created using Visual Studio or the Azure portal (An example of an Azure function is provided here.
• To make the storage account, select the option for LRS replication.

Optional Challenge (More advanced)

Read text from an image using Azure Computer Vision, Storage Account, and Azure Functions

Hints

• Use the Azure portal to create the Azure Computer Vision resource
• Use the Azure Functions portal to create the Azure Function
• Use ChatGPT for guidance on integrating with Azure Computer Vision and Azure Storage Account
• To extract text from images using Azure Computer Vision:
  • Use the OCR API to recognize text from the image
  • Use the Read API to detect and recognize text from an image
  • Explore other features of Azure Computer Vision to improve the accuracy of the text recognition

Validation

• Open CloudShell in the azure portal
• Upload the validation script

Usage:

      ./cohackvalidator.sh <storage_account_name> <storage_account_key> <container_name> <function_url>

Parameters:

- storage_account_name - the name of the Azure Storage account

- storage_account_key - the access key for the Azure Storage account

- container_name - the name of the container to create in the Azure Storage account

- function_url - the URL of the Azure Function that uploads the data to the Azure Storage account