Azure CLI

Azure CLI allows to manage Azure resources and automate common tasks from the command line.

Installing (Windows)

On Windows, Azure CLI is installed with an MSI that can be downloaded from https://aka.ms/installazurecliwindows.

az find … searches for commands that contain a given string:

az find secret

az interactive automatically displays help information to make it easier to select subcommands.

Arguments that are available for every command are:

`--help`
`--output`	selects the output format from `json`, `jsonc` (colored JSON), `tsv` (tab separated values), `table` (human readable) and `yaml`, the default being JSON)
`--query`	Applies JMESPath expressions on the result.
`--verbose`
`--debug`

The CLI allows to configure defaults for values with az config (and az init).

A configurable value has a section name (for example defaults or core) followed by a «normal» name.

Some configurable values include:

`core.output`	The format of the result returned by `az` commands.
`defaults.group`	Resource group for all commands
`defaults.location`
`defaults.web`	Web app name in `az webapp` commands
`defaults.vm`	Name of the virtual machine in `az vm` commands
`defaults.vmss`	Virtual machine scale set in `az vmss` commands
`defaults.acr`	Container registry name for `az acr` commands

In a Linux CLI, the default location where the configured values are stored is ~/.azure/config.