Managing the Cloud from the Command Line

JMH · Jun 20, 2012

I blogged about the Windows Azure cloud a few weeks ago. I'm digging the new stuff and trying different scenarios on Macs, PCs and Linux (I prefer Ubuntu). As a long time PowerShell and Command Line fan I'm always looking for ways to do stuff "in text mode" as well as scripting site creations and deployments.

Turns out there are a mess of ways to access Azure from the command line - more than even I thought. There's a JSON-based Web API that these tools end up talking to. You could certainly call that API directly if you wanted, but the command line tools are damn fun.

Windows PowerShell cmdlets

Mac Command Line Tools

Linux Command LIne Tools

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Managing the Cloud from the Command Line

JMH

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