Azure Command-Line Interface (CLI) documentation

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.

Start here

Overview

• What is Azure CLI?
• Get started
• Onboarding cheat sheet
• Terminology and support levels

Install

Download

• Install - Windows
• Install - macOS
• Install - Linux
• Run in Azure Cloud Shell
• Run in a Docker container

Sign in

How-To Guide

• Authentication methods
• Work with service principals

What's new

• Sign in with Web Account Manager (WAM)
• Azure AD Graph to Microsoft Graph migration

Next steps

Training

• Learn to use the Azure CLI tutorial
• How-to use Azure CLI in a Bash environment
• Considerations for using Azure CLI in a PowerShell environment
• Tips to use Azure CLI successfully
• Script to create Azure resources at scale

Find documentation

Reference

• Reference index A to Z
• Article (docs) index A to Z
• Sample index A to Z

What's new

What's new

• What's new highlights
• Release notes

How-to guides

Concept

• Protect sensitive information
• Configure settings
• Change output formats
• Query command output
• Work in interactive mode
• Work in multiple clouds
• Use the Azure REST API
• Manage Azure subscriptions
• Manage Azure resource groups

Manage cloud resources with the Azure CLI

Training

• Create Azure resources
• Control Azure services
• Manage virtual machines
• Connect an application to Azure Storage
• Run parallel tasks in Azure Batch

Tutorial

• Learn to use the Azure CLI
• Create a virtual network and machine
• Create an Azure service principal

Give feedback and get support

Concept

• Request a new feature
• Report a product bug
• Get help from the community
• Request support using the Azure CLI