Get Started with Azure CLI 2.0 Commands

Azure CLI 2.0 is the new cross-platform Command Line Interface tool to manage your azure deployment, to install Azure CLI please refer to this article.

login:

1. login to Azure: type: az login

2. browse to https://aka.ms/devicelogin and enter the code provided in the previous command

3. login with your Microsoft / work account

4. wait for the login command to finish (can take some time, depend on the number of subscription your account have permission)

5.you will get a JSON reply with all of the subscriptions you are logged in.

Start using CLI Commands:

1. Azure CLI Syntax: az [Sub Group] [Command] --options

2. list subscriptions: az account list

3. Select subscription: az account set --subscription <ID/Name>

4. get all virtual machines: az vm list

Using `--help` command

you can use --help to get help at every level

for example, if we want to stop a virtual machine and don't know the command syntax:

1.first we run the "az --help" to return the command groups for the highest level of CLI

2. we can see that there is a "VM" subset, now we can search help for this subgroup - az vm --help will return:

3. look like az vm stop command is the right one, now let's check for this command parameters "az vm stop --help"

4. now we have the full command: az vm stop -n nakashvm -g nakash-rg

I hope that this short article encourages you to start using the Azure CLI and to see that it is very easy to understand it's syntax.

Take Care and happy coding!