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Dec282017December 28, 2017January 8, 20190Commentby Thomas Maurer
Azure Cloud Shell

Azure Cloud Shell – shell.azure.com and in Visual Studio Code

Posted in Cloud, Containers, Hyper-V, Microsoft, Microsoft Azure, PowerShell, Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, Web, Windows 10, Work

Back in May Microsoft made the Azure Cloud Shell available in the Microsoft Azure Portal. Now you can use it even quicker by just go to shell.azure.com. First you login with your Microsoft account or Work and School account, and if your account is in multiple Azure Active Directory tenants, you select the right tenant and you will be automatically logged in. So even if you are on a PC where you can not install the Azure CLI or the Azure PowerShell module, you can still easily fire up a shell where you can run the Azure CLI, Azure PowerShell and other CLI tools like Docker, Kubectl, emacs, vim, nano, git and more.

In addition you can also open up Azure Cloud Shell directly from Visual Studio Code

Azure Cloud Shell Visual Studio Code

With that, enjoy your holidays and I wish you a good start in the new year!


May112017May 11, 2017January 8, 20190Commentby Thomas Maurer
Azure Cloud Shell

Microsoft Azure Cloud Shell

Posted in Cloud, Containers, Microsoft, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Azure Stack, PowerShell, Virtualization, Web, Web, Work

Today at the Microsoft Build Conference, Microsoft announced the Azure Cloud Shell. The Azure Cloud Shell is a browser-based shell experience to manage and develop Azure resources.

Azure Cloud Shell offers a browser-accessible, pre-configured shell experience for managing Azure resources without the overhead of installing, versioning, and maintaining a machine yourself. Today it gives you a variety of different tools directly from your web browser in the Azure Portal.

This gives Azure Administrators an easy admin environment to manage resources as well as third-party applications. In the background Microsoft runs thousands of isolated containers, ready for you to use. Microsoft takes care of keeping this container up to date, so you can focus on your administrator tasks. The usage is free, the only thing you will need to pay, are the storage cost for your container and the things you store on the Azure File Share.

Linux shell interpreter

  • Bash
  • sh

Azure tools

  • Azure CLI 2.0 and 1.0

Text editors

  • vim
  • nano
  • emacs

Source control

  • git

Build tools

  • make
  • maven
  • npm
  • pip

Containers

  • Docker
  • Kubectl
  • DC/OS CLI

Databases

  • MySQL client
  • PostgreSql client
  • sqlcmd Utility

Other

  • iPython Client

It also looks like PowerShell will be available later, hopefully it will arrive soon. Microsoft also announced Azure PowerShell 3.0. If you want to learn, check out my blog post: Mastering Azure with Cloud Shell


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