Gain insights into DevOps in Azure, delve into configuration management, CI/CD, and Infrastructure as Code. Explore tools like GitHub and Kubernetes through hands-on projects to become a DevOps professional.

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This course is for anyone in IT or software engineering who wants to learn more about DevOps and, specifically, how to follow DevOps practices in Azure. Whether you’re a system administrator, engineer, developer, or IT manager, this course will help you understand what it takes to deliver more value to customers with DevOps.

You will dive into concepts like configuration management, continuous integration/continuous delivery, and Infrastructure as Code. You will learn the key tools used by DevOps professionals such as: the command line, Visual Studio Code, GitHub, Kubernetes, and more.

You will complete various projects throughout the course where each chapter’s project is designed in a step-by-step manner to walk you through using the tool just as you would in your daily life.

By the time you finish, you will have the foundations in place to become a DevOps professional.

The Complete Guide to DevOps in Azure

# Azure PowerShell

Many refer to managing Azure with PowerShell as “Azure PowerShell,” and it might be confusing to newcomers. No, this isn’t a special type of PowerShell. Azure PowerShell is shorthand for the **Az** PowerShell module, including the [Azure PS drive](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/powershell/navigate-azure-resources-just-like-a-file-system/). Now that we've got that out of the way, let's get down to business.

> *This lesson is meant to be a brief overview of Azure PowerShell. If you'd like to learn more about this topic, check out the [Microsoft documentation](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/azure/?view=azps-3.6.1)*

As mentioned, like many other services, Microsoft provides a [PowerShell module](https://adamtheautomator.com/powershell-modules/) called *Az* to manage Azure resources. In this course, we’ll be using v7.1.1. Inside of this PowerShell module, it contains many other dependent modules that expose hundreds of commands to work with Azure.

## No setup needed using Cloud Shell

Since you'll be using the Cloud Shell to manage Azure, you don't have to install the *Az* PowerShell module. It doesn’t need to be installed. However, if you’d like to use it on your local Windows, Linux, or macOS system, run `Install-Module -Name Az` in a PowerShell console. Once installed, you can then authenticate to an Azure subscription using  `[Connect-AzAccount](https://adamtheautomator.com/connect-azaccount-powershell/)`.

Like the Azure CLI, using Cloud Shell takes care of the installation and authentication needed when managing Azure resources using the Az PowerShell module.

## Finding commands

Unlike many other PowerShell modules, the *Az* PowerShell solution isn't made up of just one module. It is a "package" of many modules all rolled up into one. If you download the module with `Install-Module`, you'd immediately see dozens of different modules streaming past. Azure is huge. There are a lot of services to manage, so Microsoft has broken out services by module.

As you work with Azure in PowerShell on a daily basis, this module separation isn't necessarily important. But, if you're new to PowerShell especially, this setup may confuse you when trying to find the commands you're looking for.

For example, open up the Cloud Shell and run `Get-Command -Module Az`. This command will typically return all of the commands inside of a particular module, which is `Az` in this case. You'll immediately notice nothing is returned. No commands are returned because nothing exists in the `Az` module. Instead, all commands are "children" of the `Az` module.

To find Azure commands, you must use a wildcard character to find all modules that start with `Az.` by typing `Get-Command -Module Az.*`. You'll then see all commands available in all of the Azure PowerShell modules.

Taking a cue from the Azure CLI section, let's say you want to manage Azure resource groups. You can narrow down all of those commands by filtering on the commands matching a specific name. In this example, you can tell `Get-Command` to only return commands with the word `ResourceGroup` in the name using wildcards.

```PowerShell
Get-Command -Name *ResourceGroup*
```

You will notice in the output that you have many different commands, aliases, and cmdlet. Aliases are simply another way to call a cmdlet. 




Learn and practice different commands on Azure PowerShell in this lesson. 