The official information on Cloud Shell’s file storage is here. It’s good stuff, and covers most things you might like to know, take a look! This blog contains a few more behind-the-scenes details for the curious. NB: We might change this in the future, this isn’t guaranteed.
When you open Azure Cloud Shell and run Get-AzVM
or az vm list
for the first time, it works right away. But why?
Arc for Servers has a new Azure CLI extension and PowerShell module. Both are still experimental, so expect a few rough edges and please report any issues you see. Because they are prerelease, they are not included (yet) in the main releases (ie, you don’t get this just by installing az cli or the Az module).
However they are already functional and useful. Here’s how to do some simple operations with each of them.