Tools for interacting with Azure

Azure provides multiple tools for managing your environment, including the:
- Azure portal
- Azure PowerShell
- Azure Command Line Interface (CLI)

Azure portal

Azure portal is a web-based, unified console that provides an alternative to command-line tools.
With the Azure portal, you can manage your Azure subscription by using a graphical user interface
You can:
- Build, manage, and monitor everything from simple web apps to complex cloud deployments
- Create custom dashboards for an organized view of resources
- Configure accessibility options for an optimal experience
Azure portal is designed for resiliency and continuous availability.
It maintains a presence in every Azure datacenter. This configuration makes the Azure portal resilient to individual datacenter failures and avoids network slowdowns by being close to users.
The Azure portal updates continuously and requires no downtime for maintenance activities.

Azure Cloud Shell is a browser-based shell tool that allows you to create, configure, and manage Azure resources using a shell.
Azure Cloud Shell support both Azure PowerShell and the Azure Command Line Interface (CLI), which is a Bash shell.

Azure PowerShell is a shell with which you can run commands called command-lets (cmdlets).
These commands call the Azure REST API to perform management tasks in Azure.
Cmdlets can be run independently to handle one-off changes, or they may be combined to help orchestrate complex actions such as:
- The routine setup, teardown, and maintenance of a single resource or multiple connected resources.
- The deployment of an entire infrastructure, which might contain dozens or hundreds of resources, from imperative code.
Capturing the commands in a script makes the process repeatable and automatable.
You can install and configure Azure PowerShell on Windows, Linux, and Mac platforms.