Tools for Azure Stack

As Azure Stack is a solution in a box, the first question when talking about tools for Azure Stack is "where do I have to install them to be supported?". The answer, MAS-CON01, because it is the management VM. A wide variety of tools are provided that help with the administration of Azure Stack.

• Visual Studio: Visual Studio, including the Azure SDK, is a must have for creating and modifying ARM templates. You can download it from https://www.visualstudio.com.
• AzCopy: AzCopy is a command-line utility for copying data to and from Azure BLOB, file, and table storage with optimal performance. You can copy data from one object to another within or between storage accounts. As Azure Stack behaves in the same way, you can just use the same EXE for running it against itself.
• Azure storage emulator: The Microsoft Azure storage emulator provides a local environment that emulates the Azure storage services for development purposes. This tool is suitable for testing an application against storage services locally without connecting to Azure or Azure Stack.
• Azure storage explorer: If you need a solution to connect to and browse for Azure storage, it is available for various OSes:
  • Windows: https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=698844&clcid=0x409
  • Mac: https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=698845&clcid=0x409
  • Linux: https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=722417&clcid=0x409