Implementing Azure: Putting Modern DevOps to Use
by Florian Klaffenbach, Oliver Michalski, Markus Klein, Mohamed Wali
Azure automation tools
Azure provides several ways of interacting and automating things. The two main ways to interact with Azure besides the portal are Azure PowerShell and the Azure Command-Line Interface (CLI).
Both are basically just wrappers around the Azure API to enable everyone not familiar with RESTful APIs, but familiar with their specific scripting language, to use and automate Azure. The Azure PowerShell module provides cmdlet for managing Azure services and resources through the Azure API. Azure PowerShell cmdlet are used to handle account management and environment management, including creating, updating, and deleting resources. These cmdlet work completely the same on Azure, Azure Pack, and the Azure Stack, Microsoft's private ...
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