At its Build developer conference, Microsoft today announced a new feature for the Azure Portal, its central dashboard for managing applications that run on Azure. The new Azure Cloud Shell brings a full Bash shell to the portal, with support for Microsoft’s own PowerShell coming later. Access to this shell is also available in the Azure mobile apps. Your Cloud Shell sessions are persistent and the Azure command-line tools are, of course, already pre-installed. Sessions are automatically synced to a $Home directory that now allows you to save files and scripts for reuse. This also means that you can now use VI right from the Azure Portal. But you also could use the Docker command-line tools to start up containers. “This gives you a fantastic way to manage all of your Azure resources,” Microsoft’s Scott Guthrie noted, and added that the company believes this feature will help developers become more productive. The company first provided a sneak peek at the new Cloud Shell last December. This feature is now available to all Azure users.
At its Build developer conference, Microsoft today announced a new feature for the Azure Portal, its central dashboard for managing applications that run on Azure. The new Azure Cloud Shell brings a full Bash shell to the portal, with support for Microsoft’s own PowerShell coming later. Access to this shell is also available in the Azure mobile apps.
Your Cloud Shell sessions are persistent and the Azure command-line tools are, of course, already pre-installed. Sessions are automatically synced to a $Home directory that now allows you to save files and scripts for reuse. This also means that you can now use VI right from the Azure Portal. But you also could use the Docker command-line tools to start up containers.
“This gives you a fantastic way to manage all of your Azure resources,” Microsoft’s Scott Guthrie noted, and added that the company believes this feature will help developers become more productive.
The company first provided a sneak peek at the new Cloud Shell last December.
This feature is now available to all Azure users.