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We love the CLI 💙. Cheatsheet with the most common Microsoft Azure CLI commands with examples.

Each section covers one specific set of resources you can manage with your CLI. Per each section you will find the following information:

• Title: The resources set name that you can manage with the CLI
• Command: Remember this one. It's the basic thing to start. For instance, az group is all about manage resource groups.
• Basic actions: Basic actions you can do in the command. Tip: mentally join command and basic action and you will be at half way to use the CLI to manage the resource.
• Examples: Set of examples using that command and the basic actions. First, it is described in human expression what you want to perform and the line after, the command that perform the action. Try to link the way of thinking and the sequence of the command and you will never forget a command again.

Note: In the examples is assumed that all the actions are based on your subscription account.

Manage Resouce Groups

Command:

$ az group

Basic actions:

Command	Description
create	Create a new resource group.
delete	Delete a resource group.
exists	Check if a resource group exists.
list	List resource groups.
show	Gets a resource group..

Examples

1. Create a resource group called playground in northeurope

$ az group create -l "northeurope" -n "playground"

2. Does it my resource group called playground exists?

$ az group exists -n "playground"

3. Give me a list with all my resource group

$ az group list

4. Show me the resouce group called playground

$ az group show -n "playground"

5. Delete the group playground and do not give me confirmation

$ az group delete -n "playground" -y

Manage Storage accounts

Command:

$ az storage account 

Basic actions:

Command	Description
create	Create a storage account.
delete	Delete a storage account.
check-name	Check if a resource group exists.
list	List resource groups.
show	Gets a resource group..

Examples

1. Create a storage account group called mystorageaccount in the resource group called playground, in the location northeurope and with store-keeping unit Standard_LRS

$ az storage account create -n "mystorageaccount" -g "playground" -l "northeurope" --sku Standard_LRS

Manage Batch accounts

Command:

$ az batch account 

Basic actions:

Command	Description
create	Create a new batch account.
login	Specify which batch account the CLI should wotj with.

Pool command:

$ az batch pool 

Basic actions:

Command	Description
create	Create a new pool.
show	Show me the information of certain pool
delete	Delete a pool

Job command:

$ az batch job 

Basic actions:

Command	Description
create	Create a new pool.
show	Show me the information of certain pool

Task command:

$ az batch task 

Basic actions:

Command	Description
create	Create a new task.
show	Show me the information of certain pool
file list	List all the files created for that task
file download	Download files created for that task

Examples:

1. Create a batch account group called mybatchaccount in the storage account called mystorageaccountin the resource group called playground and in the location northeurope.

$ az batch account create -n "mybatchaccount" --storage-account "mystorageaccount" -g "playground" -l "northeurope"

2. Tell to CLI that I am working with the batch account called mybatchaccount in the resource group called playground. For that, I am sharing the authorization keys with you.

$ az batch account login -n "mybatchaccount" -g "playground" --shared-key-auth

3. Create a pool with the id myfirstpool with the virtual machine size Standard_A1_V2 with 2 dedicated nodes, using canonical:ubuntuserver:16.04-LTS as OS and with node agent batch.node.ubuntu 16.04

$ az batch pool create `
    --id "myfirstpool" `
    --vm-size Standard_A1_v2 `
    --target-dedicated-nodes 2 `
    --image `
        canonical:ubuntuserver:16.04-LTS `
    --node-agent-sku-id `
        "batch.node.ubuntu 16.04"

4. Show me state of creation of my pool with id myfirstpool

$ az batch pool show --pool-id $poolName --query "allocationState"

5. Create a job with the id myjob in my pool with id myfirstpool

$ az batch job create --id myjob --pool-id "myfirstpool"

6. Create a task with id myfirsttask in the job with the id myjob and the job consist of execute the following command line: /bin/bash -c 'printenv | grep AZ_BATCH; sleep 90s'

$ az batch task create `
     --task-id myfirsttask `
     --job-id myjob `
     --command-line "/bin/bash -c 'printenv | grep AZ_BATCH; sleep 90s'"

7. Show me all the information of my task with id myfirsttask of my job with id myjob

$ az batch task show --task-id myfirsttask --job-id myjob 

6. I want to list the files resulting of my task with id myfirsttask of my job with id myjob. Show me the results in table format.

$ az batch task file list --job-id myjob --task-id myfirsttask --output table

7. Download the file stdout.txt created in my task with id myfirsttask of my job with id myjob. The destination in my local computer will be ./stdout.txt

$ az batch task file download `
 --job-id myjob `
 --task-id myfirsttask `
 --file-path stdout.txt `
 --destination ./stdout0.txt

Manage AKS

Basic actions:

Command	Description
create	Create a new ask kluster.

Based batch task command:

$ az aks 

Human thinking usage:

1. Create an AKS cluster called mykubercluster in the resource group called playground with one node (VM) and create in my local machine the ssh keys to access to it.

$ az aks create -n "mykubercluster" -g "playground" --node-count 1 --generate-ssh-keys

Manage App Service Web App

Command:

$ az webapp

Basic actions:

Command	Description
create	Create a web app resource.
deployment	Show me the information of certain pool
config	List all the files created for that task

Examples:

1. Create a web app group called mywebapp in the resource group called playground and with the app service plan created before calle myfreeserviceplan.

$ az webapp create -n "mywebapp" -g "playground" --plan "myfreeserviceplan"

2. Deploy to my web app called mywebapp in the resource group called playground the code that have in github https://github.com/cesiztel/azure-cli-hero based on the master branch and I will manually triggered.

$ az webapp deployment source config `
    -n "mywebapp" `
    -g "playground" `
    --repo-url "https://github.com/cesiztel/azure-cli-hero" `
    --branch "master" `
    --manual-integration

3. Sync all the code configure with my git repo and master branch for the web app called mywebapp in the resource group called `playground

$ az webapp deployment source sync -n "mywebapp" -g "playground"