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Explains how to use the Azure storage drivers

registry, service, driver, images, storage, azure

Microsoft Azure storage driver

An implementation of the storagedriver.StorageDriver interface which uses Microsoft Azure Blob Storage for object storage.

Parameters

Parameter	Required	Description
`accountname`	yes	Name of the Azure Storage Account.
`accountkey`	yes	Primary or Secondary Key for the Storage Account.
`container`	yes	Name of the Azure root storage container in which all registry data will be stored. Must comply the storage container name [requirements][create-container-api].
`realm`	no	Domain name suffix for the Storage Service API endpoint. For example realm for "Azure in China" would be `core.chinacloudapi.cn` and realm for "Azure Government" would be `core.usgovcloudapi.net`. By default, this is `core.windows.net`.

To get information about azure-blob-storage visit the Microsoft website.
You can use Microsoft's Blob Service REST API to [create a container] (https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/dd179468.aspx).