How to run PowerShell remotely on Azure Website

Question

Problem

I have website hosted on Azure as a Azure Website (not in a separate virtual machine).

I am going to create job that will run systematically, crawl and index site content.

I want to be able to run PowerShell on my PC which will work with remote date and show progress and result on my PC.

Also I want to create reports on PowerShell. As I do not have dummy boss that needs Excel reports in order to understand data. PowerShell is more convenient for IT-oriented person like me.

Idea

I have some idea and need validation from community. Is it a good idea to create PowerShell module DLL, add as reference to Web Application project? In this case I may be able to connect to site machine remotely (not sure) import module and work with it.

Answer 1

Web Jobs now natively support PowerShell scripts. You can upload a zip file containing a .ps1 file and it will be executed without further configurations.

Answer 2

Have you tried using the Kudu powershell interface? It lets you run powershell commands on your site directly from the browser

You can find it at: https:// [yoursitename] .scm.azurewebsites.net/DebugConsole/?shell=powershell

You'll need to login with your ftp user name and password