How to query Azure CLI for specific results

• Examples:

  1. Give me the names of vms in the resource group
  2. Give me the public ips of the vm

• Pre-req’s:

  • JSON:

• What we will be learning:

  • JMESPath

Scenarios:

1. Basic Queries:

   • Ensure you have atleast one vm in your azure account
   • Write a query to get the list of vms in azure

   az vm list
   

   • Navigate to the documentation page and look out for global parameters
   • To write a JMES query use the global parameter –query
   • Best-Practice for beginers:
     • Store the output of the command in the JSON File
   • Get the Names of the first vm

   az vm list --query '[0].name'
   

   • Get the Names of all the vms

   az vm list --query '[*].name'
   

   • write a command to get all the resource groups

   az group list
   

   • write a query to get the last resource group name

   az group list --query '[-1].name'
   

   • write a query to get all the resource names

   az group list --query '[*].name'
   

   • Write a query to display resource group and its location

   az group list --query '[*].[name, location]'
   az group list --output table --query '[*].{Name:name, Region: location}'
   az group list --query '[*].{Name:name, Region: location}'
   az group list --output table --query '[::2].{Name:name, Region: location}'
   az group list --output table --query '[::-1].{Name:name, Region: location}'
   

2. Filtering the Data

   • Write a query which will show the resource groups from centralus only

   az group list --query '[?location == 'centralus']'
   

   • Now format outpup

   az group list --output table --query "[?location == 'centralus'].{Name:name}"
   

3. Using basic functions

   • write an azure cli to find the count of resource groups in central us

   az group list --query "length([?location == 'centralus'])"
   

4. Write an azure cli to get the vm name, location and username of all the vms with size standard_B1s

az vm list --query "[?hardwareProfile.vmSize == 'Standard_B1s'].{VMName: name, Region: location, Username: osProfile.adminUsername}" --output table

5. Write an azure cli query to get the public ip address of the vm
   • Note: combine two cli queries.