🔹 Feature: Azure Cloud Shell — Open in VS Code for the Web
🔹 What It Does: A toolbar button in Azure Cloud Shell that opens the same session in a full Visual Studio Code environment in the browser — file explorer, editor, integrated terminal, Copilot Chat, and Azure Resources sidebar — connected to the same Cloud Shell container and identity.
What Is It Giving You:
✅ Real IDE Instead of a Basic Text Editor: The old Cloud Shell built-in editor was fine for a quick tweak. VS Code for the Web is a real IDE — multi-file editing, IntelliSense, syntax highlighting for every language, side-by-side diffs, extensions, source control. Finally usable for anything beyond a one-liner.
✅ Same Container, Same Identity: The web VS Code attaches to your existing Cloud Shell container and inherits your Azure authentication. No re-login, no extra provisioning — files, tools, azd/az/kubectl state all just work.
✅ Full Azure Resources Sidebar: Browse and manage App Services, Container Apps, Cosmos DB, Function App, Logic App, Managed Identities, Microsoft Foundry, PostgreSQL Flexible/Standard, Spring Apps, SQL databases/servers, Static Web Apps, Storage accounts, Virtual Machines, Web PubSub, Azure Arc-enabled machines, and more — right from the sidebar.
✅ GitHub Copilot Chat Built In: The chat pane is right there — “Build with Agent,” generate code, ask about your Azure resources, run agent instructions across your workspace.
✅ Preloaded Tooling: Azure Developer CLI (azd), Copilot Chat extension, GitHub Repositories extension, Microsoft Foundry extension. Clone a GitHub repo, edit it in the browser, and azd up — no local install of anything.
✅ Multiple Concurrent Sessions: Open several sessions across browser tabs — each runs as a separate process in the same container. Multi-window editing that actually works.
✅ Web Preview for Local Ports: Open a port on the Cloud Shell container from the toolbar and preview a running web app in a new browser tab — great for demos, one-off inspections, or local dev servers running inside the shell.
✅ No Local Setup: No VS Code install, no Azure CLI install, no auth config — a bookmarked URL and a browser is your Azure development machine.
🌐 https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/azure/vscodeforweb
🌐 Direct link: https://vscode.dev/azure
