The document provides an overview of the Azure CLI, including: - The Azure CLI allows creation and management of Azure resources from the command line across platforms. - It can be installed via several options and authenticated interactively or non-interactively. - Resources can be created, queries performed, and configurations scoped via the CLI. - Interactive mode aids command discovery and the Cloud Shell integrates it in the Azure portal. - The open source project is on GitHub for contribution and support.

1. Azure CLI Deep Dive
Neil Peterson - @nepeters

2. Agenda
• Introduction
• CLI Basics
• Resource Creation
• Queries and Output
• Scoped Configurations
• Interactive CLI
• Troubleshooting
• Cloud Shell
• GitHub project

3. Azure Management Interfaces
• Azure Portal
• Azure REST API
• Azure PowerShell Module
• Azure Command Line Interface
Azure Resource Manage Templates*

4. CLI Introduction

5. Azure CLI Overview
Cross platform CLI for provisioning and managing Azure infrastructure.
• Run on macOS, Windows, or Linux
• Run in Azure Cloud Shell
• Create and manage Azure resources from command line
• Write scripts to create and manage Azure resources

6. CLI Basics

7. Azure CLI Installation
Cross platform with several installation options.
• macOS – Instructions
• Windows – Instructions
• Linux - Instructions
• Docker Image – Instructions
• Nightly Builds – Instructions

8. Azure CLI Authentication
• Interactive – ‘az login’
• Non Interactive – ‘az login –u username –p password
• Service Principle – ‘az login –service-principal –u http://my-app –p
password –tenant tenant

9. Using the CLI
• Can be run in various shells (Bash, CMD, PowerShell)
• Get help (az --help) - simple format, identifies required arguments,
examples.
• Scoped help (az group --help) – get help on a specific command.
• Command output is JSON by default

10. Queries and Output

11. Azure CLI Query
The query argument can be used to search and filter data.
• CLI uses JMESPath query notation
• Query using the –query argument
• Filter data using the contains function
• Output formats:
• json – json string.
• ksonc – colorized json string
• table – table
• tsv – tab-seperted values

12. CLI Scoped Configurations

13. Azure CLI – Scoped Configurations
The CLI can be scoped so that default values are always used.
For instance, if you want to avoid entering a resource group name, a
default can be specified.
• az configure --defaults group=“myResourceGroup”
• az configure --defaults vm=“myVM”

14. CLI Interactive Mode

15. Azure CLI – Interactive Mode
Interactive mode can be used for discovering command and examples.
• Discover commands and arguments
• Scope the CLI to a specific resource
• Bash commands can be used in interactive mode.

16. Cloud Shell

17. Azure CLI – Cloud Shell
Cloud Shell is build into the Azure portal and integrated with
documentation.
• Browser based console
• A volume is mounted where scripts can be stored
• Common tools such as the Docker CLI are also installed

18. GitHub Project

19. Azure CLI – GitHub Project
Azure CLI is fully open sourced, developed and supported on GitHub.
• Written in Python
• Open to contribution
• Support provided .via GitHub issues
• Sample PR - GitHub

20. In review: session objectives and takeaways
Now, you should be better able to…
• Install and use the Azure CLI
• Deploy Azure infrastructure with the CLI
• Query data with the CLI
• Find support and contribute to the CLI