Getting Started: Azure CLI

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Install Azure CLI

Azure CLI is available for Windows, Linux and macOS. You can get the guides for your OS of choice at Microsoft Docs.

Login to Azure

First of all we need to make sure we are logged in to Azure.

az login

Optional: Change Subscription

If you have multiple Azure Subscriptions, you might want to whitch to the right one.

You can list all the subscriptions you have access to with:

az account list --output table

You can select a subscription with:

az account set --subscription "{SUBSCRIPTION-NAME}"

Create a Resource Group

Azure organizes all the resources in Resource Groups.

You can create a new Resource Group with:

az group create --name "{GROUP-NAME}" --location "{AZURE-REGION}"

You can list all the Azure regions with:

az account list-locations --output table