Using Azure CLI for managing Azure resources

Installing Azure CLI

• Login to the machine using privileged account.
• Download the latest build of Azure CLI.

• Windows download instruction and location:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/install-azure-cli-windows?view=azure-cli-latest

• RHEL/CentOS download instruction and location:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/install-azure-cli-yum?view=azure-cli-latest

• Ubuntu/Debian download instruction and location:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/install-azure-cli-apt?view=azure-cli-latest

Common Azure CLI commands

• Login to an Azure account, from command prompt:

az login

• List available subscriptions:

az account list --output table

• Change the context to a specific Azure subscription:

az account set --subscription "My Subscription"

Note: Replace “My Subscription” with the relevant subscription name

• Run the command below to verify the currently selected Azure subscription:

az account show

Resource group related commands

• Create a new Azure resource group:

az group create --name MyResourceGroup --location MyLocation

Note 1: Replace MyResourceGroup with your own relevant group name

Note 2: Replace MyLocation with the target location, from the list below:

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/global-infrastructure/locations/

• List information about a resource group:

az group show --name MyResourceGroup --output table

Note: Replace MyResourceGroup with your own relevant group name

Networking related commands

• List available virtual networks:

az network vnet list --output table

• List available subnets (Run the command as a single line):

az network vnet subnet list --resource-group MyResourceGroup --vnet-name MyVNet --output table

Note 1: Replace MyResourceGroup with your own relevant group name

Note 2: Replace MyVNet with the relevant VNET name

• Create a new virtual network and a new subnet (Run the command as a single line):

az network vnet create --resource-group MyResourceGroup -n MyVnet --address-prefix <Virtual network address prefix CIDR> --subnet-name MySubnet --subnet-prefix <Subnet address prefix CIDR>

Note 1: Replace MyResourceGroup with your own relevant group name

Note 2: Replace MyVNet with the relevant VNET name

Note 3: Replace MySubnet with the target subnet name

Note 4: Replace <Virtual network address prefix CIDR> with relevant value (see example below)

Note 5: Replace <Subnet address prefix CIDR> with relevant value (see example below)

Example:

az network vnet create --resource-group MyResourceGroup -n MyVnet --address-prefix 10.0.0.0/16 --subnet-name MySubnet --subnet-prefix 10.0.0.0/24

• List all available network security groups:

az network nsg list --output table

• Create a new network security group:

az network nsg create --resource-group MyResourceGroup -n MyNsg

Note 1: Replace MyResourceGroup with your own relevant group name

Note 2: Replace MyNsg with the target network security group

• List all default available rules inside a network security group (Run the command as a single line):

az network nsg show --resource-group MyResourceGroup -n MyNsg --query "defaultSecurityRules[]" --output table

Note 1: Replace MyResourceGroup with your own relevant group name

Note 2: Replace MyNsg with the target network security group

• List all available rules inside a network security group (Run the command as a single line):

az network nsg rule list --resource-group MyResourceGroup --nsg-name MyNsg --output table

Note 1: Replace MyResourceGroup with your own relevant group name

Note 2: Replace MyNsg with the target network security group

• Create a new RDP rule inside an existing network security group (Run the command as a single line)

az network nsg rule create --resource-group MyResourceGroup --nsg-name MyNsg -n AllowRDP --priority 500 --source-address-prefixes Internet --destination-port-ranges 3389 --access Allow --protocol Tcp --description "Allow RDP"

Note 1: Replace MyResourceGroup with your own relevant group name

Note 2: Replace MyNsg with the target network security group

Note 3: Replace AllowRDP with the relevant rule name

Note 4: Replace 3389 with the relevant port number

Note 5: Replace "Allow RDP" with the relevant rule description

• List available public IP addresses assigned to virtual machines:

az network public-ip list --output table

Virtual machine related commands

• List available virtual machines in a subscription:

az vm list --output table

• List available virtual machines in a specific resource group:

az vm list --resource-group MyResourceGroup --output table

Note: Replace MyResourceGroup with your own relevant group name

• Create a Linux VM:

az vm create -n MyVm --resource-group MyResourceGroup --image Centos --data-disk-sizes-gb 10 20 --size Standard_DS2_v2 --vnet-name MyVnet --subnet MySubnet --admin-username myusername --generate-ssh-keys

Note 1: Replace MyResourceGroup with your own relevant group name

Note 2: Replace MyVm with the target virtual machine hostname

Note 3: Replace MyVNet with the relevant VNET name

Note 4: Replace MySubnet with the target subnet name

Note 5: Replace myusername with the relevant value

• Get information about a specific virtual machine inside a resource group:

az vm show --resource-group MyResourceGroup -n MyVm

Note 1: Replace MyResourceGroup with your own relevant group name

Note 2: Replace MyVm with the target virtual machine hostname

• Show VM power state:

az vm show --resource-group MyResourceGroup -n MyVm -d --query "powerState"

Note 1: Replace MyResourceGroup with your own relevant group name

Note 2: Replace MyVm with the target virtual machine hostname

• Start a virtual machine inside a specific resource group:

az vm start --resource-group MyResourceGroup -n MyVm

Note 1: Replace MyResourceGroup with your own relevant group name

Note 2: Replace MyVm with the target virtual machine hostname

• Restart a virtual machine inside a specific resource group:

az vm restart --resource-group MyResourceGroup -n MyVm

Note 1: Replace MyResourceGroup with your own relevant group name

Note 2: Replace MyVm with the target virtual machine hostname

• Stop a virtual machine inside a specific resource group:

az vm stop --resource-group MyResourceGroup -n MyVm

Note 1: Replace MyResourceGroup with your own relevant group name

Note 2: Replace MyVm with the target virtual machine hostname

• List available virtual machine sizes for a region:

az vm list-sizes -l MyLocation --output table

Note: Replace MyLocation with the target location, from the list below:

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/global-infrastructure/locations/

• List available virtual machine image publishers for a region:

az vm image list-publishers -l MyLocation --output table

Note: Replace MyLocation with the target location, from the list below:

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/global-infrastructure/locations/

• List available virtual machine image SKU’s for a region:

az vm list-skus -l MyLocation --output table

Note: Replace MyLocation with the target location, from the list below:

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/global-infrastructure/locations/

Storage related commands

• List available storage accounts:

az storage account list

• Create an empty new storage account:

az storage account create -n mystorageaccount01111 --resource-group MyResourceGroup -l MyLocation --sku Standard_LRS

Note 1: Replace MyResourceGroup with your own relevant group name

Note 2: Replace MyLocation with the target location, from the list below:

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/global-infrastructure/locations/

Note 3: Replace mystorageaccount01111 with a unique storage account name between 3-24 characters (numbers and lower-case letters)

• Remove a storage account (Run as a single line):

az storage account delete -n mystorageaccount01111 --resource-group MyResourceGroup

Note 1: Replace MyResourceGroup with your own relevant group name

Note 2: Replace mystorageaccount01111 with the relevant storage account name