Azure Government

Aaron Roney joins Scott Hanselman to show off building and deploying a web app to Azure from the command line using Azure CLI 2.0 and Git. Azure CLI 2.0 is the cross-platform command-line tool for managing Azure resources, which is written in Python, updated every two weeks, and is available as open source on GitHub (Azure/azure-cli).
Excellent. Got my attention. I'll investigate this in more depth.
Is this just an alternative to PowerShell? Is it faster, better, or just a preference of some?
@Kinser: Azure CLI 2.0 is comparable to using Azure cmdlets in PowerShell. Use the one that goes best with your choice of command shells, so just preference for the most part.