Microsoft Azure

Azure Account Setup

• Create an Azure account here.
• Sign in the Azure portal.

Azure CLI

The Azure command-line interface (Azure CLI) is a set of commands used to create and manage Azure resources. The Azure CLI is available across Azure services and is designed to get you working quickly with Azure, with an emphasis on automation.

• Azure CLI Reference (Microsoft)

Installation

sudo apt install azure-cli

Setup

This command will open a web browser for you to log in.

az login

If no web browser is available, use device code flow.

az login --use-device-code

Show details of a subscription

az account show

Help

az help

az functionapp -h

az functionapp list -h

List of resource groups in Azure

az group list

Azure Functions

• Azure Functions overview (Microsoft)
• az functionapp (Microsoft)

Similar to AWS Lambda. Azure Functions has runtimes for JavaScript, Java, Python, C#, F#, and PowerShell (preview). Azure lacks Go and Ruby—otherwise, the language options are very similar.

az functionapp -h

az functionapp list

Azure uses resource groups. Permissions can apply globally but also at the resource group level. So what you may not be able to do at the global level, you might be able to do at a resource group level by specifying a –resource-group.

az group list

az functionapp list --resource-group <resource group>

Azure Virtual Machines

Manage Linux or Windows virtual machines.

• az vm (Microsoft)
• az vm run-command invoke (Microsoft)

az vm -h

List VMs from resource group

az vm list --resource-group <resource group>

Run a command on a VM

az vm run-command invoke -n <VM name> --resource-group <resource group> --command-id RunShellScript --scripts "ls -la"