Understanding Powershell extension for DevOps

In Azure devops, there is an extension called PowerShell for Mac, Windows and Linux. This is not the same as "Azure Powershell" which is targeted to run on window build host / agent.

Most of the time, I prefer to work with scripts based instead of inline scripts for tracking reasons.

Az cli extension will automatically login for you and you can start running various scripts. This extension, requires a manual login approach.

To installed a module, just do something like this

Install-Module -Name CosmosDB -Force

Some faq here

Can I used az cli based command here?

Yes you can. Can be as simple as follow :-

az login --service-principal --username $env:CLIENTID --password $env:CLIENTSECRET --tenant $env:TENANT_ID

az account set --subscription $env:SUBSCRIPTION

Or using powershell (you need to use "ConvertTo-SecureString". Pretty sure the following

Write-Host("init credential")

$passwd = ConvertTo-SecureString $env:CLIENTSECRET -AsPlainText -Force

$pscredential = New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSCredential($env:CLIENTID, $passwd)

Write-Host("Login into the system")

Connect-AzAccount -ServicePrincipal -Tenant $env:TENANT_ID -Credential $pscredential

Just make sure you setup your environment variables sections