8.1 Tools for Interacting with Azure

There are various methods and tools to interact with Azure

Azure Portal

It is a web based user friendly interface for managing all Azure services. It helps create, manage, and monitor all from a web application.

Azure PowerShell 

New-AzStorageAccount `
		-ResourceGroupName MyResourceGroup `
		-Name mystorageaccount `
		-Location westus `
		-SkuName Standard_GRS

Azure PowerShell is a powerful module that provides commandlets to manage Azure resources directly from PowerShell command line.

It’s ideal for automating the complex repetitive tasks through scripting.

Azure Cloud Shell

It’s a browser accessible shell, that delivers command-line experience for Azure management tasks.

It’s preconfigured to directly access Azure resources and can be directly accessed from Azure portal.

Azure CLI 

az storage account create \
		-n mystorageaccount \
		-g MyResourceGroup \
		-l westus \
		--sku standard_LRS

It’s a cross platform command line program that connects with Azure resources, mostly for Linux users.

Choice

Choice can be based on the following

Best Practices