Azure CLI Commands

In this article, I am going to present a comprehensive cheat sheet of commonly used azure cli commands with examples.

The Azure command-line interface (Azure CLI) is a set of commands used to create and manage Azure resources.

Installing Azure CLI

Use the following commands to install Azure CLI in Windows, MacOS and Linux environments.

 # MacOS (using Homebrew):  brew install azure-cli # Windows OS (using choco)  choco install azure-cli # verify the installation by running  az --version # updating cli  az upgrade
For more information, refer to the official documentation: - How to install the Azure CLI

az Login

 az login

az account

 az account set -s "anji-cloud"  # Get a list of subscriptions for the logged in account.  az account list -o table # To view all the Azure subscription names and IDs for a specific Microsoft account,  az account list --query "[?user.name=='anjkeesari@gmail.com']." --output Table # Get the details of a subscription.  az account show az account show -o table # Get all subscriptions for a tenant.  az account subscription list -o table # Get details about a specified subscription.  az account subscription show --subscription-id "85c49b84-b13d-4168-962c-8107c5b32b7e"  # or  az account subscription show --id '85c49b84-b13d-4168-962c-8107c5b32b7e'  # Get the tenants for your account.  az account tenant list

az group

 # Create a new resource group.k  az group create -l 'eastus' -n 'rg-demo'  # List resource groups.  az group list -o table # Check if a resource group exists.  az group exists -n 'rg-demo'  # Create a resource group lock.  az group lock create --lock-type ReadOnly -n lockName -g 'rg-demo'  az group lock create --lock-type CanNotDelete -n lockName -g 'rg-demo'  # List lock information in the resource-group.  az group lock list -g 'rg-demo'  # Show the details of a resource group lock.  az group lock show -n lockname -g 'rg-demo'  # Delete a resource group lock.  az group lock delete -n lockName -g 'rg-demo'  # Delete a resource group.  az group delete -n 'rg-demo'

az aks

Manage Azure Kubernetes Services - Reference

 # List managed Kubernetes clusters.  az aks list -o table # Get access credentials for a managed Kubernetes cluster.  # user authentication  az aks get-credentials --name 'aks-cluster1-dev' --resource-group 'rg-aks-dev'  # admin authentication  az aks get-credentials --name 'aks-cluster1-dev' --resource-group 'rg-aks-dev' --admin # Get the versions available for creating a managed Kubernetes cluster.  az aks get-versions --location westus2 -o table # Run a shell command  az aks command invoke -n 'aks-cluster1-dev' -g 'rg-aks-dev' --command "kubectl get namespaces"  az aks command invoke -n 'aks-cluster1-dev' -g 'rg-aks-dev' --command "kubectl create namespace test"  # Download and install kubectl, the Kubernetes command-line tool.  az aks install-cli # List node pools in the managed Kubernetes cluster  az aks nodepool list --cluster-name 'aks-cluster1-dev' -g 'rg-aks-dev'  az aks nodepool list --cluster-name 'aks-cluster1-dev' -g 'rg-aks-dev' -o table

az acr

Manage private registries with Azure Container Registries. - Reference

az ad

Azure AD for Role Based Access Control - Reference

az webapp

Manage web app logs - Reference

 # Start live log tracing for a web app.  az webapp log tail --name 'feedback-api-dev' --resource-group 'aklab-rg-dev'  # Download a web app's log history as a zip file.  az webapp log download --name 'feedback-api-dev' --resource-group 'aklab-rg-dev' --log-file webapp_624221039.zip

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