Azure CLI Cheat Sheet

az-cli.md

Az CLI

Collection of commands I've found useful and don't want to forget or lose from my shell history.

Account

# Set the context
az account set -s $subscriptionName
# Show context information
az account show
# Login with a service principal
az login --service-principal --username $clientId --password $clientSecret --tenant $tenantId

Active Directory

# Show a user
az ad user show --id $mail --query "displayName"
# Show a group
az ad group show -g $groupName --query "objectId"
# List group members
az ad group member list -g $groupName --query "[].displayName"
# List service principals
az ad sp list --display-name "Startswith..." --query "[].[displayName,objectId]"

DevOps

# List projects
az devops project list --organization $orgUrl --query "value[].name" > projects
# List repositories
while read project; do az repos list --detect true --organization $orgUrl --project $project --query "[].{repoName: name,projectName: pr
oject.name}" >> repo_list; done < projects

Extensions

az extension add --name $extensionName

Azure PowerShell

Account

# Set context
Set-AzContext -Subscription $SubscriptionName
# Get context
Get-AzContext

Custom RBAC roles

# Get role definition
$Role = Get-AzRoledefinition -Name $RoleName
# Modify permissions
$Role.Actions.Add("Microsoft.Compute/...")
$Role.Actions.Remove("Microsoft.Compute/...")
# Update role
Set-AzRoleDefinition -Role $Role