You likely heard of or currently use oh-my-zsh for your terminal on Linux or Mac, or WSL on Windows. It might also be possible to have heard of or currently use oh-my-posh for your PowerShell. Azure offers Azure Cloud Shell service, which uses both Bash Shell and PowerShell by default. Therefore, if you want either oh-my-zsh or oh-my-posh, or both, you should configure it by yourself.
Throughout this post, I'm going to show how to configure your shell environment for both.
This GitHub repository provides the working shell script source for your reference.
Let's configure oh-my-zsh on your Azure Cloud Shell. Make sure that you see the Bash Shell prompt. If not, enter the bash
command to switch your prompt to Bash.
Install oh-my-zsh.
sh -c "$(curl -fsSL \
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/master/tools/install.sh)"
Install plug-ins for oh-my-zsh. Although there are many good plug-ins, this post will install the three popular ones – zsh-completions, zsh-syntax-highlighting and zsh-autosuggestions. If you want more plug-ins, follow the steps below.
# Plugin: zsh-completions
git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-completions.git \
~/.oh-my-zsh/custom/plugins/zsh-completions
# Plugin: zsh-syntax-highlighting
git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting.git \
~/.oh-my-zsh/custom/plugins/zsh-syntax-highlighting
# Plugin: zsh-autosuggestions
git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions.git \
~/.oh-my-zsh/custom/plugins/zsh-autosuggestions
Install themes for oh-my-zsh. It's totally up to you which theme you're going to pick, but this post chooses either Spaceship or Powerlevel10k.
# Theme: Spaceship
git clone https://github.com/spaceship-prompt/spaceship-prompt.git \
~/.oh-my-zsh/custom/themes/spaceship-prompt --depth=1
ln -s ~/.oh-my-zsh/custom/themes/spaceship-prompt/spaceship.zsh-theme \
~/.oh-my-zsh/custom/themes/spaceship.zsh-theme
# Theme: Powerlevel10k
git clone https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k.git \
~/.oh-my-zsh/custom/themes/powerlevel10k --depth=1
ln -s ~/.oh-my-zsh/custom/themes/powerlevel10k/powerlevel10k.zsh-theme \
~/.oh-my-zsh/custom/themes/powerlevel10k.zsh-theme
If you choose the Powerlevel10k theme, run the following command for further configuration.
p10k configure
As mentioned above, Azure Cloud Shell uses Bash Shell by default. Unfortunately, you can't run the chsh -s $(which zsh)
command because sudo
is not allowed. Therefore, update your .bashrc
like below, as a workaround.
bash -c zsh
Once everything so far is done, restart Azure Cloud Shell. Alternatively, run the command, source .bashrc
. Then, you will have the oh-my-zsh applied shell prompt.
If you want to run all steps above in just one command, run the following:
# Download the GitHub repository
git clone https://github.com/justinyoo/oh-my-azure-cloud-shell.git ~/oh-my-azure-cloud-shell
# Install oh-my-zsh with the theme of "Spaceship"
~/oh-my-azure-cloud-shell/install.sh -t spaceship
# Install oh-my-zsh with the theme of "Powerlevel10k"
~/oh-my-azure-cloud-shell/install.sh -t p10k
If you are with the Powerlevel10k theme and want to turn on or off the current time, run the following script:
# Turn on the clock feature
~/oh-my-azure-cloud-shell/switch-p10k-clock.sh -c
# Turn off the clock feature
~/oh-my-azure-cloud-shell/switch-p10k-clock.sh
Now, your Azure Cloud Shell starts using oh-my-zsh.
Let's configure oh-my-posh on your Azure Cloud Shell this time. Make sure that you see the PowerShell prompt. If not, enter the pwsh
command to switch your prompt to PowerShell.
Install oh-my-posh.
Install-Module oh-my-posh -Scope CurrentUser -Repository PSGallery -Force
Import-Module oh-my-posh -Scope Local -Force
Install themes for oh-my-posh. Again, it's totally up to you which theme you're going to pick, but this post chooses either Spaceship or Powerlevel10k - Rainbow.
# Theme: Spaceship
Set-PoshPrompt -Theme spaceship
# Theme: Powerlevel10k - Rainbow
Set-PoshPrompt -Theme powerlevel10k_rainbow
Install plug-ins for oh-my-posh, like Terminal Icons.
Install-Module Terminal-Icons -Scope CurrentUser -Repository PSGallery -Force
Import-Module Terminal-Icons -Scope Local -Force
Create the $PROFILE
file to run when initiating a PowerShell session.
if (!(Test-Path -Path $PROFILE)) {
New-Item -ItemType File -Path $PROFILE -Force
}
# Theme: Spaceship
Write-Output "
Set-PoshPrompt -Theme spaceship
Import-Module Terminal-Icons -Scope Local -Force
" | Out-File -FilePath $PROFILE -Encoding UTF8 -Append -Force
# Theme: Powerlevel10k - Rainbow
Write-Output "
Set-PoshPrompt -Theme powerlevel10k_rainbow
Import-Module Terminal-Icons -Scope Local -Force
" | Out-File -FilePath $PROFILE -Encoding UTF8 -Append -Force
Run the following command to reload $PROFILE
.
. $PROFILE
If you want to run all steps above in just one command, run the following:
# Download the GitHub repository
git clone https://github.com/justinyoo/oh-my-azure-cloud-shell.git `
~/oh-my-azure-cloud-shell
# Install oh-my-zsh with the theme of "Spaceship"
~/oh-my-azure-cloud-shell/install.ps1 -Theme spaceship
# Install oh-my-zsh with the theme of "Powerlevel10k - Rainbow"
~/oh-my-azure-cloud-shell/install.ps1 -Theme p10k
If you are with the Powerlevel10k - Rainbow theme and want to turn on or off the current time, run the following script:
# Turn on the clock feature
~/oh-my-azure-cloud-shell/switch-p10k-clock.ps1 -WithClock
# Turn off the clock feature
~/oh-my-azure-cloud-shell/switch-p10k-clock.ps1
Now, your Azure Cloud Shell starts using oh-my-zsh.
So far, I've walked through how to configure either oh-my-zsh or oh-my-posh, or both. With both configurations, you will be able to extend your local shell scripting experiences to Azure Cloud Shell.
This article was originally published on Dev Kimchi.
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