Cloud Drops - How Windows Terminal can make YOU productive with Azure
Windows Terminal is available in the Microsoft Store as both a stable release and a preview channel, and also via winget. It unifies all your command-line environments — WSL Ubuntu, PowerShell Core, Windows PowerShell, and Windows Command Prompt — into a single tabbed window. The Azure Cloud Shell profile type uses device code authentication to spin up a managed Azure container with tools like kubectl, Terraform, and the Azure CLI pre-installed, plus a mounted Azure Storage file share to persist your files across sessions.
Custom SSH profiles let you connect directly to Azure virtual machines without leaving Windows Terminal. Enable the optional OpenSSH Client feature in Windows 10 and add an SSH command profile using ssh user@ip; alternatively, prefix with wsl.exe to use a key stored in your WSL environment. Once saved, each profile appears as an option in the drop-down, giving you a fully unified, multi-environment terminal workflow on a single Windows machine.
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