Azure CLI Cheatsheet

Authentication and Account Management

az login

az login --service-principal -u <client-id> -p <client-secret> --tenant <tenant-id>

Show current account information

az account show

List available subscriptions

az account list

Set active subscription

az account set --subscription <subscription-id>

Logout from Azure

az logout

Resource Groups

Create a resource group

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

List all resource groups

az group list

Show resource group details

az group show --name <resource-group>

Delete a resource group

az group delete --name <resource-group> --yes --no-wait

List resources in a resource group

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

Virtual Machines

Create a VM

az vm create \
  --resource-group <resource-group> \
  --name <vm-name> \
  --image <image> \
  --admin-username <username> \
  --generate-ssh-keys

List all VMs

az vm list

List VMs in a resource group

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

Start a VM

az vm start --resource-group <resource-group> --name <vm-name>

Stop a VM

az vm stop --resource-group <resource-group> --name <vm-name>

Restart a VM

az vm restart --resource-group <resource-group> --name <vm-name>

Delete a VM

az vm delete --resource-group <resource-group> --name <vm-name> --yes

Show VM details

az vm show --resource-group <resource-group> --name <vm-name>

Storage Accounts

Create a storage account

az storage account create \
  --name <storage-account> \
  --resource-group <resource-group> \
  --location <location> \
  --sku Standard_LRS

List storage accounts

az storage account list

Show storage account details

az storage account show --name <storage-account> --resource-group <resource-group>

Get storage account keys

az storage account keys list --account-name <storage-account> --resource-group <resource-group>

Delete a storage account

az storage account delete --name <storage-account> --resource-group <resource-group> --yes

App Services

Create an App Service plan

az appservice plan create \
  --name <plan-name> \
  --resource-group <resource-group> \
  --sku B1

Create a web app

az webapp create \
  --name <app-name> \
  --resource-group <resource-group> \
  --plan <plan-name>

List web apps

az webapp list

Deploy code to web app

az webapp deployment source config \
  --name <app-name> \
  --resource-group <resource-group> \
  --repo-url <git-repo-url> \
  --branch main

Show web app details

az webapp show --name <app-name> --resource-group <resource-group>

Delete a web app

az webapp delete --name <app-name> --resource-group <resource-group>

Azure Container Instances (ACI)

Create a container instance

az container create \
  --resource-group <resource-group> \
  --name <container-name> \
  --image <image> \
  --ports 80

List container instances

az container list

Show container logs

az container logs --resource-group <resource-group> --name <container-name>

Delete a container instance

az container delete --resource-group <resource-group> --name <container-name> --yes

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

Create an AKS cluster

az aks create \
  --resource-group <resource-group> \
  --name <cluster-name> \
  --node-count 1 \
  --enable-addons monitoring \
  --generate-ssh-keys

Get AKS credentials

az aks get-credentials --resource-group <resource-group> --name <cluster-name>

List AKS clusters

az aks list

Scale AKS cluster

az aks scale --resource-group <resource-group> --name <cluster-name> --node-count 3

Delete AKS cluster

az aks delete --resource-group <resource-group> --name <cluster-name> --yes

Networking

Create a virtual network

az network vnet create \
  --resource-group <resource-group> \
  --name <vnet-name> \
  --subnet-name <subnet-name>

Create a network security group

az network nsg create \
  --resource-group <resource-group> \
  --name <nsg-name>

Create a public IP

az network public-ip create \
  --resource-group <resource-group> \
  --name <public-ip-name>

List virtual networks

az network vnet list

Key Vault

Create a key vault

az keyvault create \
  --name <keyvault-name> \
  --resource-group <resource-group> \
  --location <location>

Set a secret

az keyvault secret set \
  --vault-name <keyvault-name> \
  --name <secret-name> \
  --value <secret-value>

Get a secret

az keyvault secret show \
  --vault-name <keyvault-name> \
  --name <secret-name>

List secrets

az keyvault secret list --vault-name <keyvault-name>

Monitoring and Diagnostics

Get activity logs

az monitor activity-log list --resource-group <resource-group>

Create an alert rule

az monitor metrics alert create \
  --name <alert-name> \
  --resource-group <resource-group> \
  --scopes <resource-id> \
  --condition "avg Percentage CPU > 80"

List available metrics

az monitor metrics list-definitions --resource <resource-id>

Common Utilities

Show CLI version

az version

Update Azure CLI

az upgrade

Get help for a command

az <command> --help

Set output format (json, table, tsv)

az configure --defaults output=table

Enable CLI extensions

az extension add --name <extension-name>

List installed extensions

az extension list