Azure Cloud Shell provides browser-based authenticated shell access to Azure from virtually anywhere. Cloud Shell gives the users a rich environment with common tools that is updated and maintained by Microsoft.
Currently, Azure Cloud Shell provides two environments that can be launched from Azure Portal, dedicated URL, Azure documentation, Visual Studio Code via the Azure Account extension, and Azure App:
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Bash in Cloud Shell that runs Bash shell on Ubuntu Linux, which was made generally available in November 2017
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PowerShell in Cloud Shell that runs Windows PowerShell 5.1 on Windows Server Core and has been in preview since September 2017
In this post, we are listing the key upcoming changes to the PowerShell experience in Azure Cloud Shell.
Read about it in the Azure blog.