What is Azure Cloud Shell?
Definition: Cloud Shell is an interactive and browser-based Shell that you can use to manage Azure resources.
- Azure cloud shell provides an advantage of choosing the Shell you want to work in, either Bash or PowerShell.
- Azure cloud shell provides a browser-based command-line tool, that gives an advantage of accessing it from anywhere using the web portal or mobile app. It is a browser-based shell, so you don't need to Install, Update or Maintain the version of the Machine.
- Cloud shell requires Azure File Share for storage purposes. Both Bash and PowerShell data will be stored in single Azure File Share storage.
- Azure Cloud Shell also provides a complete editor which supports file explorer, language highlighter, and command palette.
- Cloud shell works on temporary host machine on per-session, per-user basis
- If you do not interact with the cloud shell for 20 minutes, it will automatically log out of the session.
- Azure cloud shell automatically authenticates the user For Azure CLI and Azure PowerShell
How to access and use Azure Cloud Shell?
There are two ways
- Directly open using this link: https://shell.azure.com/
- Click on the Cloud Shell icon to open from the Azure Portal, as shown in the screenshot below.
