Tool cheatsheet

Azure CLI 2 Cheatsheet

Sign-in and setup

Check the CLI version — Print the Azure CLI version and installed extensions.
Sign in — Sign in through the browser.
Sign in without a browser — Sign in on a machine with no browser by entering a code on another device.
Show the current subscription — Show which account and subscription commands will use.
List subscriptions — List all subscriptions you can use, as a table.
Switch subscription — Choose the subscription later commands run against.
Set defaults — Set a default resource group and location so you don't repeat them.
Search for commands — Find commands and examples by describing what you want.

Create a resource group — Create a container for related resources.
List resource groups — Show your resource groups.
Delete a resource group — Delete a resource group and everything inside it.
Create a Linux VM — Create a VM with SSH keys generated for you.
List VMs and their IPs — Show VMs with their public IP addresses and power state.
Stop and deallocate a VM — Deallocate to stop paying for compute. A plain stop keeps billing.
Start a VM — Start a stopped or deallocated VM.
Open a port on a VM — Allow inbound traffic to a VM's port.

Deploy a web app from a folder — Create the app service plan and web app if needed, then deploy the current folder.
Stream web app logs — Follow the live log output of a web app.
Set app settings — Set environment variables for a web app.
Create a storage account — Create a general-purpose storage account.
Upload a blob — Upload a file to a container, authenticating with your sign-in.
List blobs — List the blobs in a container.
List SQL servers — List Azure SQL servers in a resource group.

Sign Docker in to a registry — Authenticate Docker to Azure Container Registry.
Build an image in the registry — Build and push an image in Azure with no local Docker needed.
Connect kubectl to AKS — Merge the cluster's credentials into your kubeconfig.
Scale an AKS node pool — Change the number of nodes in a cluster.
Read a Key Vault secret — Print one secret's value.
Store a Key Vault secret — Create or update a secret. Use a real value.
Deploy a Bicep template — Deploy infrastructure defined in a Bicep file to a resource group.

Choose the output format — Print results as a table. Other formats are json, yaml, tsv and none.
Filter results with JMESPath — Select only the fields you need.
Capture a value in a script — Use tsv output for a plain value without quotes.
See the underlying requests — Print detailed logs of requests, useful for permission errors.

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