Windows Azure Xplat-CLI for Windows, Mac and Linux

This project provides a cross-platform command line interface for developers and IT administrators to develop, deploy and manage Windows Azure applications.

Features

• Accounts
  • Azure Active Directory authentication for Organizational ID
  • Download and import Azure publish settings
  • List imported Azure subscriptions
  • Select current subscription
  • Manage Azure environments
  • Create and manage affinity groups
  • Export management certificate
• Storage
  • Create and manage Storage Accounts
  • Create and manage container, blob and ACL
• Websites
  • Create and manage Windows Azure websites
  • Download site log files and get real time log streaming
  • Manage Deployments
  • Configure GitHub integration
  • Create, manage and swap slots
  • Create and manage WebJobs
• Virtual machines
  • Create and manage Windows and Linux Virtual machines
  • Create and manage VM endpoints
  • Create and manage Virtual Machine Images
  • Create and manage certificates
  • CloudInit for Ubuntu VM
• Network
  • Import and export network configuration
  • Create and manage virtual network
  • Create and manage DNS server
• Mobile Services
  • Create and manage Mobile Services
  • Manage tables, scripts, and configuration
  • Access logs
  • Access data
• Service Bus
  • Create and manage Service Bus namespaces
• SQL Database
  • Create and manage SQL Servers, Firewall rules and Databases
• Resource Manager
  • Manage resource groups and deployments
  • Query and download gallery templates
  • Manage individual resources

Installation

Install from npm

You can install the azure-cli npm package directly.

npm install -g azure-cli

Pre-compiled installers

• Windows
• Mac
• Linux

Download Source Code

To get the source code of the SDK via git just type:

git clone https://github.com/WindowsAzure/azure-sdk-tools-xplat.git
cd ./azure-sdk-tools-xplat
npm install

Configure auto-complete

Auto-complete is supported for Mac and Linux.

To enable it in zsh, run:

echo '. <(azure --completion)' >> .zshrc

To enable it in bash, run:

azure --completion >> ~/azure.completion.sh
echo 'source ~/azure.completion.sh' >> .bash_profile

Get Started

In general, following are the steps:

• Get yourself authenticated with Windows Azure. For details, please check out this article.
  • Option 1: Login with your Organizational account. Azure Active Directory authentication is used in this case. No management certificate is needed. Note: Microsoft account is not supported in this approach right now. You can create an Organizational account from the Azure portal for free.
  • Option 2: Download and import a publish settings file which contains a management certificate.
• Use the commands

The first step can be different for different environment you are targeting. Following are detail instructions for each supported environment.

Windows Azure

If you use both mechanisms on the same subscription, Azure Active Directory authentication always wins. If you want to go back to management certificate authentication, please use azure logout, which will remove the Azure Active Directory information and bring management certificate authentication back in.

Login directly from xplat-cli (Azure Active Directory authentication)

# This will prompt for your password in the console
azure login -u <your organizational ID email address>

# use the commands to manage your services/applications
azure site create --location "West US" mywebsite

Use publish settings file (Management certificate authentication)

# Download a file which contains the publish settings information of your subscription.
# This will open a browser window and ask you to log in to get the file.
azure account download

# Import the file you just downloaded.
# Notice that the file contains credential of your subscription so you don't want to make it public
# (like check in to source control, etc.).
azure account import <file location>

# Use the commands to manage your services/applications
azure site create --location "West US" mywebsite

2 Modes

Starting from 0.8.0, we are adding a separate mode for Resource Manager. You can use the following command to switch between the

• Service management: commands using the Azure service management API
• Resource manager: commands using the Azure Resource Manager API

They are not designed to work together.

azure config mode asm # service management
azure config mode arm # resource manager

For more details on the commands, please see the command line tool reference and this How to Guide

Running tests

The tests included in the repository execute CLI commands against live Widows Azure management endpoints. In order to run the tests, you must have a Windows Azure subscription as well as a GitHub account.

Before running tests, you must take a one-time action to configure the CLI with the Windows Azure subscription by running

azure account download
azure account import

Next, provide the following parameters by setting environment variables:

• AZURE_STORAGE_ACCOUNT - your Windows Azure Storage Account name
• AZURE_STORAGE_ACCESS_KEY - secret access key to that Storage Account
• AZURE_SERVICEBUS_NAMESPACE - your Windows Azure Service Bus Namespace
• AZURE_SERVICEBUS_ACCESS_KEY - secret access to that Service Bus namespace
• AZURE_GITHUB_USERNAME - GitHub account username
• AZURE_GITHUB_PASSWORD - GitHub account password
• AZURE_GITHUB_REPOSITORY - name an empty GitHub repository to use during tests (e.g. tjanczuk/clitest)
• SSHCERT - path of SSH Certificate (eg. path\cert.pem)
• BLOB_SOURCE_PATH - source url path for disk upload (container\subcontainer\disk.vhd)

To run the tests, call

npm test

from the root of your clone of the repository. Most tests execute against live Windows Azure management APIs, and running them takes considerable time.

Note: by default, the tests targeting the Windows Azure Mobile Services run against a mocked Windows Azure HTTP endpoints. In order to execute these tests against live Windows Azure management APIs instead, set the NOCK_OFF=true environment variable before running the tests.

Learn More

For documentation on how to host Node.js applications on Windows Azure, please see the Windows Azure Node.js Developer Center.

For more extensive documentation on the new cross platform CLI tool for Mac and Linux, please see this reference and this How to Guide