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Explains how to use the Azure storage drivers

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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).