Lesson 1: Configure Services

Create Azure blob storage

You need to create Azure blob storage on your Azure account. Then, create two containers:

• Name the first imgix - it will be used as assets source for the imgIX service.
• Name the second source - it will be required only for local testing purposes to simulate AEM assets cloud storage.

Configure imgIX

On your imgIX account, you need to create a source pointing to the Azure blob storage.

• During the setup, define the name of the imgIX subdomain serving transformed images. Write down that domain, since we will need it later.
• In the Security section check the Secure URLs checkbox.
• Once the source provisioning is finished, open it and click on the Show Token button in the Security section. Write down that token, since we will need it later.

To test your configuration:

1. Upload any asset, e.g. image.png, to the imgix blob storage container
2. Go to https://dashboard.imgix.com/tools and sign the image URL using the URL https://<your-subdomain>.imgix.net/image.png
3. Open the signed URL in the browser to verify the image is loaded

Configure Adobe I/O

1. Go to the https://console.adobe.io and create a new project using App Builder template.
2. Add the following services to your project workspace:
   • Asset Compute
   • I/O Management API
   • I/O Events
3. When adding the first service, you will be asked to generate keys pair or upload your own. Pick Generate keys pair and your keys will be downloaded as a zip file.
4. Unzip the file and write down the location to the private.key.

Last updated 12/11/2024

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