

They work at a higher level than tools that install an editor, a utility, or a compiler, delivering complete infrastructures. But they’re only for the cloud or for Azure Arc managed systems. That’s never been the case in Microsoft environments, at least not until the Azure CLI and ARM templates. Having a simple command line tool like apt or rpm that would install an application and all its prerequisites makes installing a toolchain easy all you need is a script that chains together a list of tools. Windows developers have long looked at Linux’s surfeit of package managers with envy.
