Microsoft Azure Xplat-CLI for Windows, Mac and Linux

This project provides a cross-platform command line interface for developers and IT administrators to develop, deploy and manage Microsoft Azure applications.

Please consider using Azure CLI 2.0, the preferred choice for ARM (Azure Resource Manager) commands.

CLI 2.0 migration guide can be found here.

Features

• Accounts Management
• Azure Service Management
  • Storage
  • Websites
  • Virtual machines
  • Network
  • Service Bus
  • SQL Database
• Azure Resource Management
  • Generic resource groups and deployments management
  • Role based access control
  • Cmdlets for individual resource providers, including compute, storage, network, redis cache, insights, etc.
  • Datalake
  • CDN
  • HDInsight (Note: The HDInsight commands in ASM mode are deprecated and will be removed by Jan. 2017)
  • Key Vault
  • Batch
• Service fabric management (Only works for Linux cluster currently, coming soon on Windows cluster)

Note: The list of features may not be up-to-date. For accurate command details, type azure | azure -h | azure --help to navigate through the help system. Also, use azure config mode asm|arm to switch between service management (Version V1)and resource management (Version V2) of the Azure REST API.

Endpoints for Azure

The CLI targets "Public Azure Cloud" by default. You can get more information about the endpoints supported in different environments from here.

Non-Interactive Authentication

If you need to create an automation account for non interactive or scripting scenarios then please take a look at the documentation over here.

Supported Environment Variables

Please take a look at the list of supported environment variables over here.

Installation

Installation from a particular branch of this repository

• Uninstall the previously installed CLI
  • If you installed via MSI, then uninstall the windows MSI. For mac installer sudo azure-uninstall -g
  • If you installed via npm then execute: npm uninstall -g azure-cli
• Clear the global cache:
  • If npm4.0 or before: npm cache clear -g
  • If npm5.0 or greater npm cache verify
• Delete the .streamline folder from the User’s home profile C:\Users\\.streamline | ~/.streamline, if present.
• Download the tarball from this link: https://github.com/Azure/azure-xplat-cli/archive/.tar.gz
• Install from the tarball: `npm install –g