Episode 013 - Battle of the Azure Command Line - CLI, PowerShell, Windows Terminal, what more?

Tobias Zimmergren

22 Jan 2020

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Follow Tobias and Jussi as they digest some of their choices for working with Azure from the command line. The options are many, and we'll dive into some of the favorite tools and what or when they are being used. Azure CLI, Azure PowerShell, Windows Terminal, Windows Subsystem for Linux and using Bash - so many options, but do you really need to know them all?

Show notes

Show notes:

Azure Cloud Shell via shell.azure.com

Azure Account extension for Visual Studio Code

Azure Portal (mobile app): iOS, Android

Azure PowerShell 'Az' module

Using PowerShell in Visual Studio Code

A blog post from Tobias and Jussi with some fine examples on scripting (Zimmergren.net)

WSL 2 deployment guide

Windows Terminal (Store install), GitHub repo

resources.azure.com

Cmder (Tobias' choice of command line environment)

Installing the Azure CLI in Visual Studio Code (Zimmergren.net)

Running the Azure CLI using Bash on Ubuntu, in Windows 10 (Zimmergren.net)

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