Working with cloud services is an increasingly important topic. The focus has shifted steadily toward the cloud over the past couple of years. In this chapter, you will see and compare Azure and Google Cloud automation with PowerShell. AWS was intentionally left out because the AWS PowerShell experience is already very good and on par with Azure, whereas a lot more effort needs to be put into Google Cloud PowerShell.
In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:
- Connecting to Azure
- Connecting to Google
- Exploring Azure resource groups
- Exploring Google Cloud projects
- Deploying resource group templates
- Deploying Google Cloud templates
- Using the Azure Container Registry
- Using the Google Cloud Container Registry
- Containers on Azure
- Containers on Google Cloud
- SQL on Azure
- SQL on Google Cloud
