Azure resources by using Azure CLI

Azure CLI

Azure CLI is a command-line program you use to connect to Azure and execute administrative commands on Azure resources. It runs on Linux, macOS, and Windows operating systems.

For example, to restart a VM, you would use a command such as:

az vm restart -g MyResourceGroup -n MyVm

Working with Azure CLI

Commands in CLI are structured in groups and subgroups. Each group represents a service provided by Azure, and the subgroups divide commands for these services into logical groupings.

Finding commands

For example, if you want to find commands that might help you manage a storage blob, you can use the following find command:

az find blob

If you know the command's name you want, the help argument for that command will get you more detailed information on the command—also, a list of the available subcommands for a command group.

az storage blob --help

Creating resources

1. Connecting

az login

2. Creating resources

You'll often need to create a new resource group before you create a new Azure service. So we'll use resource groups as an example to show how to create Azure resources from the Azure CLI. The Azure CLI group create command creates a resource group.

az group create --name <name> --location <location>

3. Veryfing installation

For many Azure resources, Azure CLI provides a list subcommand to get resource details.

az group list

To get more concise information, you can format the output as a simple table.

```bash az group list --output table ``````