Getting started with Azure CLI

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Requirements

• Microsoft Azure Account ( with funds or credits )
• Microsoft Azure Suscription
• A Windows, Linux or Mac system
• A web browser
• Access to internet
• Azure CLI installed on your system (here's the official guide)
• Installed SSH (optional)

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Creating your VM

1. Open your terminal.

Windows

Press the Windows key and type cmd, then click on Command prompt.

Mac

Press Command + Spacebar and type terminal, then click on it.

Linux

This will depend a lot on the distribution you're using, however, for most desktop distributions the shortcut to open a command line is Ctrl + Alt + T.

2. Type the following command and press enter:

az login

3. A new browser window will appear, just login to your Microsoft Azure account. If your logged in succesfully, the following message will appear:

4. We will now create a new resource group. Type the following command in order to do so:

az group create --location uksouth --name cli-resource-group

5. In order to see your resource groups, you will need to type the following command:

az group list

6. We can also see our resource groups using the Azure Portal. Once you're inside your dashboard, click on the searchbar and type Resource groups, then click on it.

7. You will now see all of your resource groups, including the one you just created using Azure CLI.

8. We will now create a VM inside the resource group. Go back to your terminal and insert the following command:

az vm create --resource-group cli-resource-group --name myVM --image Debian --admin-username azureuser --generate-ssh-keys

This may take a couple of seconds or minutes.

9. In order to confirm that you created your VM succesfully, you can type the following command:

az resource list --resource-group cli-resource-group

Alternatively, you can check it inside the Azure Portal by clicking on your resource group:

EXTRA: connecting to your VM using SSH:

1. You will first need to find out your VM's public IP address, to do so, insert the following command:

az vm list-ip-addresses --resource-group cli-resource-group

2. Identify your VM's public IP address.

3. Insert the following command, but replace IPADDRESS with your VM's public IP.

ssh azureuser@IPADDRESS

4. Congratulations! You are now connected to your VM!

5. In order to exit from your VM and go back to your regular terminal, just type exit.

exit

Deleting your resources

1. Once we remove your resource group, the VM inside it will also be deleted. Insert the following command to remove your resource group, then, press y and enter (this may take some time).

az group delete -n cli-resource-group

2. Let's list our resource groups again to check that it isn't there.

az group list

3. As you can see, our resource group (cli-resource-group) has been deleted, however, we do have another resource group called NetworkWatcherRG; this resource group was created when we created our VM. I don't need it for any of my resources, so I'll be removing it as well.

az group delete -n NetworkWatcherRG

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Congratulations ! You've used the Azure CLI to deploy, read and delete resources !

Don't forget to delete or turn off your resources when you you're done with them !