Azure Blob Storage - Define Automation Task in Powershell - azure

Question

I have defined within the Azure Portal a scheduled task to delete blobs older than x days. Now I need to script this to Powershell, however I couldn't find any information about this.
At this moment, feb 2023, Azure Blob Storage Automation Tasks are in Preview mode as it can be seen in this picture.
Does anybody know if defining Automation Tasks in Powershell is possible at this moment? Thanks!

Answer 1

Azure Blob Storage - Define Automation Task in Powershell
You can use Azure Automation Runbook for this action:
You can use below PowerShell code to delete the blobs 10 days older:
$a="Storage account name "
$ak="ETxeSAVNp7NkvWAYwri6M7+AStOQtSZQ=="
$context = New-AzStorageContext -StorageAccountName $a -StorageAccountKey $ak
Get-AzStorageBlob -Container "name of container" -Context $context | where {$_.LastModified -le (Get-Date).AddDays(-10)}
$ak is the storage account key
If you dont want to give container name you can use below code:
$a="Storage account name "
$ak="ETxeSAVNp7NkvWAYwri6M7+AStOQtSZQ=="
$context = New-AzStorageContext -StorageAccountName $a -StorageAccountKey $ak
$c=Get-AzStorageContainer -Context $context
foreach($con in $c)
{
Get-AzStorageBlob -Container $con -Context $context | where {$_.LastModified -le (Get-Date).AddDays(-10)
}
You can also use the below command to only delete specific type of blob:
Get-AzStorageBlob -Container "name of conatiner" -Blob *.txt -Context $ctx | where {$_.LastModified -le (Get-Date).AddDays(-10)}
In place of txt you can use jpg, etc.
Here -10 means 10 days older (you can give your required number of days).
Now create a automation account and then create a powershell run book in it.
You can paste the above code in powershell run book and then you can schedule the runbook.
By this way you can create an automation task of PowerShell.