In this recipe, we will look at how to connect to a remote Linux VM using PowerShell remoting. OpenSSH, which originated as part of the OpenBSD project and is commonly used across the BSD, Linux, macOS, and Unix ecosystems, can now be used from PowerShell in Cloud Shell as well.
Let's try something different this time: go to Mobile First and use the Azure app on your phone to launch the Cloud Shell:
At the time of writing this book, the PowerShell console you get on phones is Windows PowerShell (5.1) and not PowerShell. The remoting commands, as well as the protocols, are different on Windows PowerShell and PowerShell, and so we only use the mobile console to run the Linux commands.