
But PowerShell for Linux goes a long way beyond that. They really can use the same tools and the same people to manage everything from everywhere.” PowerShell creates to strange bedfellowsĪzure is one of the key drivers for Microsoft’s increasing support for Linux nearly a third of virtual machines running on Azure run Linux. They can manage it from Windows, they can manage it from Linux, they can manage it from Mac OS.

“It’s in our interest to make it super easy to consume as much computing as makes sense for them and PowerShell makes easy for them to manage everything - Windows or Linux - using a single management stack and to do it from any client they want. What customers want is more support for the heterogeneous infrastructure that enterprises have always had, which now includes cloud services, and to be able to do what they need from whatever client they prefer to use, Jeffrey Snover, lead architect for Microsoft’s Enterprise Cloud Group tells CIO.com. Jeffrey Snover participates in a PDC panel discussion in 2009
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Open source, Linux and Mac OS announcements from Microsoft are becoming routine under CEO Satya Nadella, but making PowerShell fully open source and making it cross-platform is particularly significant - and not just because PowerShell for Linux is something that customers have been requesting for a long time.

NET-based scripting and management framework is now open source and available for Linux (initially Ubuntu, RedHat and CentOS) and Mac OS, and both cloud and traditional infrastructure companies are stepping up to support it.
