How To Install And Configure PowerShell For Azure
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In this blog post, we will discuss how to install and configure PowerShell for Azure cloud.
What Is PowerShell?
PowerShell is a cross-platform task automation and configuration management framework, consisting of a command-line shell and scripting language.
What is Azure?
Microsoft Azure is one of the leading cloud service providers in the market with 18% market share.
Prerequisites:
- One Windows system with PowerShell 5.0 or higher.
- One active Azure account with full access.
If you have a lower version of PowerShell, please install the latest version of PowerShell (minimum version 5 is required) using below link. You can check your PowerShell version using the $PSVersionTable command.
https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/releases
How To Install And Configure PowerShell For Azure:
Step 1: Open PowerShell terminal as administrator and execute the below command to install the PowerShell module for Azure.
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Install-Module -Name Az -AllowClobber -Scope AllUsers -Force |
Step 2: Once the PowerShell module is installed for Azure; you can list all the cmdlets using the below command.
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## List all PowerShell cmdlet, functions, and alias for Azure Get-Command -Module Az.* ## List all PowerShell cmdlet, functions, and alias for a particular service Get-Command -Module Az.Compute ## List all PowerShell cmdlets, functions, and alias for a particular resource type and command type. Get-Command -Verb Get -Noun AzVM* -Module Az.Compute |
Step 3: Get help on an Azure PowerShell cmdlet.
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Get-Help Get-AzVM -full |
Step 4: Configure your Azure PowerShell authentication. Provide your Azure username and password when asked.
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Connect-AzAccount |
Step 5: Check if Azure credential working using the below command.
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Get-AzSubscription |
Step 5: Execute your 1st PowerShell command for Azure.
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Get-AzLocation |
Hope you have enjoyed this blog post. To get more details on PowerShell for Azure, please refer to below links.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/azure/
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/azure/install-az-ps
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/?view=azps-4.8.0