Microsoft Azure – Viewing Underlying Softwares using Cloud Shell

In this article, we will learn about the underlying software in the Azure Cloud Shell. Whenever we fire up the Azure Cloud Shell, what’s actually happens, is that a Linux container gets spun up in the background for us. So, now, we have a sandbox environment for us to execute our commands. On top of that, the very first time that we are on the Cloud Shell, an Azure storage account will get created. So, any keys, files, or scripts that we need have persisted, will have a place to be.

Implementation:

Follow the below steps to checkout the underlying software in the Azure cloud using the cloud shell:

Step 1: Now, we are going to fire up  Cloud Shell. Let’s take a look at what’s happening in this underlying operating system. We are going to execute a simple Linux command.  We are going to do the LSB release, and as we will see, we are actually running on Ubuntu 16 LTS.

Step 2: We can run the uname command, and here we could get some information about the version of the kernel that we are using.

Step 3: If we want to run a Python app. We can have Python installed. 

Step 4:Node.js can also be installed too. Here we have version 8.9.4.

 Step 5: We can also install .Net from here. So, not only do we have the Ubuntu environment, but we also have a lot of kernels already preinstalled that will help us get our job done that much faster.

Hence, this is how we can simply view underlying software in the Azure Cloud Shell.