Provisioning a storage account

1. Click on + Create a resource and search for Storage Account. Select Storage Account from the search results and create a new storage account.
2. Provide a name and location, then select a subscription based on the resource group created earlier.
3. Select StorageV2 (general purpose v2) for Account kind, Standard for Performance, and Locally-redundant storage (LRS) for Replication:

4. Create a couple of containers within the storage account. rawdata contains the files that would be extracted by the Data Factory pipeline and will act as the source dataset, and finaldata will contain files that the Data Factory pipelines will write data to and will act as the destination dataset:

5. Upload a data file (this file is available with the source code) to the rawdata container: