Using the Azure CLI

The Azure portal gives an easy and quick way to experiment with the Azure services that are available, but requires you to perform operations in a manual way. As your application reaches maturity and as your environment becomes large, you should prefer to work in an automated and repeatable way that will reduce the risk of human error and will increase the speed at which you can make changes and provision resources.

The Azure CLI is a cross-platform, command-line utility that allows you to manage your Azure resources in an automated and scriptable way. To use the Azure CLI, download and install the latest bits from https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/install-azure-cli.

You can work with the Azure CLI from any shell, ...

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