Azure administration and APIs
The Azure portal is the most sleek and modern looking of the top public cloud providers, including AWS and Google Cloud. We can change the settings of the portal from the settings icon on the top management bar, including the language and region:
Figure 5: Azure portal in different languages
There are many ways to manage Azure services: the portal, the Azure CLI, RESTful APIs, and the various client libraries. Besides the point-and-click management interface, the Azure portal also provides a handy shell called Azure Cloud Shell.
It can be launched from the top right-hand corner of the portal:
Figure 6: Azure Cloud Shell
When it is launched for the first time, you will be asked to pick between Bash and PowerShell. The shell interface can be switched later, but they cannot be run simultaneously:
Figure 7: Azure Cloud Shell with PowerShell
My personal preference is the Bash shell, which allows me to use the pre...
