Azure CLI Commands List

This blog discusses the top Azure CLI commands for creating and managing your Azure resources. Like PowerShell, Azure CLI is also a command-line tool that quickly completes your job.

Let us discuss the complete list of commands regarding Virtual Machines, Storage Accounts, Resource Groups, etc.

Managing Virtual Machines

Command Name	Description
az vm create	This command can help you create an Azure Virtual machine (VM).
az vm delete	To delete an Azure Virtual machine (VM).
az vm start	To start a stopped Azure Virtual machine (VM).
az vm stop	To stop a running Azure Virtual machine (VM).
az vm deallocate	To deallocate your Azure Virtual Machine.
az vm update	To update different properties of an Azure Virtual Machine (VM).
az vm list	Lists the details of Azure Virtual Machines (VMs).
az vm restart	To restart Azure Virtual Machines (VMs).
az vm resize	To resize an Azure Virtual Machines (VM).
az vm show	To get the details of an Azure VM.
az vm deallocate	To deallocate an Azure Virtual Machine (VM).
az vm user	To manage a user account for a Virtual Machine.
az vm user update	To update a user account for a Virtual Machine.
az vm user delete	To delete a user account from a Virtual Machine (VM).
az vm capture	To capture the details of a stopped Azure Virtual Machine.
az vm application	To manage applications for a Virtual Machine.
az vm auto-shutdown	Manage auto-shutdown for your Azure VM.
az vm diagnostics	To configure the Azure VM diagnostics extension.
az vm convert	To convert a VM with unmanaged disks to use the managed disks.
az vm disk	To manage the managed data disks for an Azure Virtual Machine.
az vm disk detach	To detach a managed disks from Azure VM.
az vm disk attach	To attach managed disks to an Azure VM.
az vm host	To manage a dedicated host for an Azure Virtual Machine.
az vm generalize	To generalize a Virtual Machine.

Managing Azure Resource Groups

az group list	To list Azure Resource Groups.
az group show	To get an Azure Resource Group.
az group create	To create a new Azure resource group.
az group delete	To delete an Azure resource group.
az group exists	To check if an Azure resource group exists.
az group lock	To manage the Azure resource group lock.
az group lock create	To create an Azure resource group lock.
az group lock delete	To delete a lock from an Azure resource Group.
az group update	To update an Azure resource group.
az group deployment	To manage the deployments of Azure Resource Manager.

Managing Azure Storage Accounts

az storage account list	To lists the Azure Storage Accounts.
az storage account create	To create an Azure Storage account.
az storage account show	To show the Azure storage account properties.
az storage account delete	To delete a storage account based on the specified id or name.
az storage account keys	To manage Azure storage account keys.
az storage account keys list	To retrieve the lists of Azure storage account keys under a specified storage account.
Az storage account keys renew	To generate the access and Kerberos keys for a specified Azure storage account.
az storage account check-name	To check that the Azure storage account name is valid or not.
az storage	To manage the Azure Cloud Storage resources.
az storage account show-connection-string	To get the Azure Storage account connection string details.
az storage copy	To copy files or directories from or to Azure storage.
az storage account encryption-scope	Managing encryption scope for an Azure storage account.
az storage account or-policy	To manage the Object Replication Policy of Azure Storage account.
az storage account or-policy create	To create the Object Replication Policy of an Azure Storage account.
az storage account or-policy delete	To delete the Object Replication Policy of a specified Azure Storage account.

Managing Azure Account information

az account list	Get the lists of Azure subscriptions for the logged-in user.
az account create	To create an Azure subscription.
az account clear	To clear all subscription from the local cache of your Azure CLI.
az account lock	To manage locks in Azure subscription level.
az account lock create	To create a lock for Azure Subscription.
az account lock delete	To delete a lock from an Azure subscription.
az account lock list	To list the information on the locks in Azure subscription.
az account lock show	To show the details of an Azure subscription lock.
az account lock update	To update the lock of an Azure subscription.
az account set	To set the current Azure subscription.
az account show	To get the details of an Azure subscription.
az account tenant	To manage a tenant.
az account tenant list	To get the list of tenants for your account.
az account subscription	To manage an Azure subscription.
az account subscription enable	To enable Azure subscription.
az account subscription rename	To rename an Azure subscription.
az account subscription cancel	To cancel an Azure subscription.

Managing SQL Server

az sql server create	To create a server.
az sql server delete	To delete a server.
az sql server list	To list the servers.
az sql server key	To manage SQL server keys.
az sql server key list	To get the lists of SQL Server keys.
az sql server key show	Shows a SQL Server key.

Managing Key Vault, secrets, and certificates.

Az keyvault list	To list the Azure key Vaults and/or HSMs.
Az keyvault list-deleted	To get information about the deleted Vaults or HSMs under a subscription.
az keyvault recover	To recover a deleted Vault or HSM.
az keyvault key	To manage the Azure Key vault keys.
az keyvault key create	To create an Azure Key vault key.
az keyvault update	To update the properties of an Azure key vault.
az keyvault key list	To list Azure Key vault keys.
az keyvault key recover	To recover a deleted Azure key vault key to its latest version.
az keyvault key restore	To restore a backed up key to an Azure Vault.
az keyvault certificate	To manage Azure key vault certificate.
az keyvault certificate create	To create an Azure key vault certificate.
az keyvault backup	To manage a full HSM backup.
az keyvault secret	To manage key vault secret.
az keyvault secret show	To get a secret from a specified key vault.
az keyvault secret list	Lists the secrets for a specified key vault.
az keyvault secret backup	To back up secret of a specified key vault.

For the complete lists of commands, you can refer to the Microsoft Official Site.

Conclusion

Azure CLI provides us with a list of commands to quickly manage our Azure resources. In this article, we discussed a few commands we use in our daily tasks.

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