May 2017
Intermediate to advanced
518 pages
10h 6m
English
Content preview from Implementing Azure Solutions
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Azure Automation tools
Azure provides several ways of interacting and automating things. The two main ways to interact with Azure besides the portal are the Azure PowerShell and the Azure Command-Line Interface (CLI).
Both are basically just wrappers around the Azure API to enable everyone not familiar with REST APIs, but their specific scripting language to use and automate Azure. The Azure PowerShell module provides cmdlets for managing Azure services and resources through the Azure API. Azure PowerShell cmdlets are used to handle Account management and Environment management like creating, updating and deleting resources.
These cmdlets work completely the same on Azure, Azure Pack and Azure stack, Microsoft's private cloud offerings.