How to provide an array value to az policy definition create --metadata

Question

When I create a policy definition using the portal with category "Guest Configuration", the resulting policy definition correctly includes "requiredProviders": ["Microsoft.GuestConfiguration"] in the metadata section.

I am unable to recreate the same using Azure CLI, specifically az policy definition create ... --metadata .... I have tried a number of variations with different quoting schemes, including brackets in the value, not including brackets in the value, using a bash list, etc., but these all result in a policy definition where requiredProviders is some flavor of string, not an array.

So far I have not found any examples online of someone getting az policy definition create --metadata to result in an array in the resulting policy definition.

Note that I am not talking about passing multiple metadata key-value pairs. That is easily done with space delimiting. I am talking about a single KVP where the value is an array.

Answer 1

Hi,

This must be some limit in Az CLI so I would advise to raise a support case to Microsoft. Otherwise you can try to use Azure Bicep template to deploy the policy definition. You could do the deployment of the template by using Az CLI.

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