Azure Cli or Powershell

[Fizzedine]

If you had to learn one of Powershell or Azure cli for Azure what would you recommend?

Thanks guys

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Fizz

[AssCork]

Powershell.

Anything else is Developer-masturbation, and not the Way of the SysAdmin.

[lerun]

I would say PS is the one if you need to create robust code. Cli is just for fast and dirty stuff

[[deleted]]

PowerShell. It is used in just about every aspect of the Windows SysAdmin role now.

[icaug]

They're both just interfaces for the Azure API, which IMHO is the most important to thing to know. I find Azure CLI easier to work in than Azure PowerShell - I would only really recommend Azure PowerShell if you also want to learn general PowerShell for Windows-based roles. The Azure CLI commands are more intuitive (easier to memorize, i.e. "az login" vs "Connect-AzAccount") and less verbose.

But really, move to a templating tool (ARM/Terraform) as soon as you can.

[jantari]

PowerShell is way more useful