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AWS also has something similar called AWS Shell: https://github.com/awslabs/aws-shell

Azure has one too

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cloud-shell/overview

An interactive CLI (this) is not the really at all the same thing as a JavaScript TTY connected to a container (Cloud Shell).

(Though, Google does also have a Cloud Console that is comparable to Azure's Cloud Shell.)

Cloud Shell has an interactive mode - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/interactive-azure...

That's the CLI (it's right there in the title of the article)... which yes, can be run from the Cloud Shell, as the Cloud Shell is just a bash docker container that has the CLI pre-installed, etc.

  python3 -m venv az.env
  source ./az.env/bin/activate
  pip install azure-cli
  az --help

Although ms has a strange fetish for complicated installation, one might prefer running it from docker:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/install-azure-cli...

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/azure-cli

With the interactive CLI, we set out with a similar mission as other cloud CLIs - our first priority was helping users use the GCP CLIs including gcloud and gsutil. With our Interactive CLI, we’ve tried to build something that doesn’t just help new users discover what they can do, but also helps make more advanced users productive, for scenarios such as piping between commands, and shell redirection for read-edit-write workflows. The Interactive CLI provides a full shell environment, and isn’t restricted exclusively to the use of GCP tools.

Interactive CLIs like are a little different than a "cloud shell", which provides a fully cloud-hosted CLI environment. If you want a fully curated cloud-hosted option, check out https://cloud.google.com/shell/. Note that the Cloud Shell includes the Cloud SDK.

Here's an alternative approach for an AWS cli (old, and stuck in beta/alpha but I still use it for quick ec2 operations)

https://github.com/carlsborg/dust

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