Using Microsoft Azure's Cloud Shell and az interactive

In this section, we'll learn how to use Windows Terminal with Microsoft Azure, one of the top cloud providers used by many organizations, both on the Windows platform and beyond. Microsoft Azure has a generous free tier of 12 months, with some restrictions. In this section, we'll use free-tier resources when integrating Microsoft Azure into Windows Terminal.

Some of the work is already done for us; when we installed Windows Terminal, an Azure Cloud Shell profile was automatically created:

Figure 14.1 – Azure Cloud Shell available in Windows Terminal

If the Azure Cloud Shell menu option is not available in Windows Terminal, first ensure that it's not set to hidden (in Windows Terminal, find the Azure Cloud Shell profile and ensure "hidden": true is not set). The full profile definition is as follows:

{
  "guid": "{b453ae62-4e3d-5e58-b989...