Prerequisites

In order to follow this tutorial you have to install
npm package manager and node js

Cloudinary Setup

To get started simply create a free account on cloudinary ( https://cloudinary.com/users/register/free)

once logged in you will be provide three most important things that we will use further in our turorial.

these things are:

-cloud name

-Api key

-Api secret

Go to dashboard and you will see the above three things

Strapi Setup

If you don't have a strapi project just follow the step below to create a new strapi project

 yarn create strapi-app my-project --quickstart

if you don't have yarn install just make npm install -g yarn

run

strapi dev to start your server

Create an Administrator user

Navigate to http://localhost:1337/admin
(opens new window).
Complete the form to create the first Administrator user

You can to strapi documentation to check how to manage and create content type in admin dashboard

https://strapi.io/documentation/developer-docs/latest/getting-started/quick-start.html#_3-create-a-restaurant-content-type

Working with Images in Strapi

In your strapi project run

yarn add strapi-provider-upload-cloudinary 

to add cloudinary to your project

In your config folder create a file plugins.js and the following code:

module.exports = ({ env }) => ({
 /
/ ...
 upload: {
   provider: 'cloudinary',
   providerOptions: {
     cloud_name: env('CLOUDINARY_NAME'),
     api_key: env('CLOUDINARY_KEY'),
     api_secret: env('CLOUDINARY_SECRET'),
   },
 },
 // ...
});

Now create a .env file like shown below

CLOUDINARY_NAME = pasteYourCloudinaryCloudName
CLOUDINARY_KEY = pasteYourCloudinaryApiKey
CLOUDINARY_SECRET = pasteYourCloudinaryApiSecret

Now we have the image url starting with "https://res.cloudinary.com/………”

Thank you