Azure CLI

• Command Line interface of Azure
• Azure CLi can be installed on
  • Linux
  • Mac
  • windows
• Download the Azure CLI. Refer Here for installation docs
• AZURE CLI needs to be explicitly authenticated post installation

Why Azure CLI

• Azure CLI is used to automate the activities, because we can create a script for the infrastructure on azure and run it whenever we need it or where ever we need it.

Authentication and Usage

• To authenticate to azure

az login

• Azure CLI usage and basic syntax

az <service> <resource> <subresource>  <action> <paramters>

# example resource groups
az group list
az group create --name forcli  --location 'Central US'
az group delete --name forcli

Scenario: Create a Resource Group and Virtual network with 3 subnets

• Navigate to here
• In this we would like create a resource group first. Now search for a section which is about resource groups
• Now open create section
• From this example our command looks like

az group create --location 'Central Us' --name 'fromcli'

• Create a Virtual Network. For cli refer here

az network vnet create --name fromcli --resource-group 'fromcli' --address-prefixes '192.168.0.0/16' --location 'Central Us' --subnet-name 'subnet1' --subnet-prefixes '192.168.0.0/24'

• Now lets add two more subnets

az network vnet subnet create --address-prefixes '192.168.1.0/24' --name 'subnet2' --resource-group 'fromcli' --vnet-name 'fromcli'

az network vnet subnet create --address-prefixes '192.168.2.0/24' --name 'subnet3' --resource-group 'fromcli' --vnet-name 'fromcli'