Tools for Interacting with Azure
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In this lesson, we’ll explore various tools provided by Azure for managing your environment, including the Azure portal, Azure PowerShell, and Azure Command Line Interface (CLI).
Azure Portal
The Azure portal is a web-based interface that offers a centralized way to manage your Azure resources. It provides a graphical user interface (GUI) to handle your Azure subscriptions and services without needing to rely solely on command-line tools.
Key Features of the Azure Portal
Using the Azure Portal
The Azure portal simplifies resource creation through a guided, wizard-like environment. Whether you need to set up a basic website, a redundant database, or a comprehensive Kubernetes cluster, the portal streamlines the process. Once resources are in place, the portal allows you to tweak settings, manage users, enforce security policies, and schedule backups.
Managing and Scaling Resources
Start and stop services as needed, and adjust resource allocation to scale your services according to business demands. The portal also helps monitor application health, track costs, analyze performance in real-time, and generate detailed reports.
Resilience and Availability
Designed for continuous availability, the Azure portal operates across multiple datacenters. This global presence ensures resilience to datacenter failures and minimizes network slowdowns. The portal’s infrastructure supports continuous updates without downtime, maintaining a seamless user experience.
Azure Cloud Shell
Azure Cloud Shell provides a browser-based command-line environment to manage Azure resources using either Azure PowerShell or the Azure CLI.
Features of Azure Cloud Shell
Azure PowerShell
Azure PowerShell is a command-line tool designed for developers and IT professionals to manage Azure resources. It uses cmdlets to execute commands that interact with the Azure REST API, enabling both simple and complex management tasks.
What You Can Do with Azure PowerShell
Azure CLI
The Azure CLI offers a similar set of capabilities as Azure PowerShell but uses Bash commands. It is particularly favored by users familiar with Unix-like operating systems.
Using Azure CLI
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