Delete resouce lock using Azure CLI task

Question

I am using the Azure CLI task in Azure Devops to run a resource lock deletion command against Azure.

The following command is getting the list of locks that i have in my resource group

az lock list -g "RG_Name" --query "[?type=='"Microsoft.Authorization/locks"'].id"

However, I am not able to further use | xargs, to delete each of the found locks by the previous command. Any suggestion to write it in the correct syntax ?

Answer 1

Hello @Anonymous ,
Thanks for your query !
Please try the below command ( I just tried from my end and it is working)

az lock list -g rgname --query "[?type=='Microsoft.Authorization/locks'].id" --output tsv | xargs -n 1 -t az lock delete --id
example output
az lock delete --id /subscriptions/subid/resourceGroups/akswithudr/providers/Microsoft.Authorization/locks/s1
az lock delete --id /subscriptions/subid/resourceGroups/akswithudr/providers/Microsoft.Authorization/locks/s2
az lock delete --id /subscriptions/subid/resourceGroups/akswithudr/providers/Microsoft.Authorization/locks/s3

Let us know if that helps !

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Regards,
Shiva

Answer 2

I managed to apply a workaround by doing it in the following code for each lock:

 for /f "delims=" %%i in ('az resource list -g RG_SE_Polisen_Dev --query "[?type=='Microsoft.KeyVault/vaults'].name" --output tsv') do set output=%%i

 az lock delete --ids "/subscriptions/{SubID}/resourcegroups/{Rg_name}/providers/Microsoft.KeyVault/vaults/%output%/providers/Microsoft.Authorization/locks/DevTestLabs Lock"