Azure CLI : Quick az cli with Docker

README.md

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Quick az cli with docker

Use Docker to creadte an quick and up to date az cli alias on Linux.

Setup

Create local container with lastest image

docker run -it --name azure-cli -v $HOME/.azure/:/root/.azure mcr.microsoft.com/azure-cli

Create az alias for azure-cli

echo "alias az='docker start -i azure-cli'" >> ~/.bashrc
source  ~/.bashrc

Test : Type az on terminal must display bash promt. Inside it, type az --version must display cli version infos.

Authentication

az login

Azure config folder will be created $HOME/.azure and will be mounted inside azure-cli every time it started.

More

• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/run-azure-cli-docker?view=azure-cli-latest

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Test :

az
bash-5.0# az --version

Output :

azure-cli                          2.2.0

command-modules-nspkg              2.0.3
core                               2.2.0
nspkg                              3.0.4
telemetry                          1.0.4

Python location '/usr/local/bin/python'
Extensions directory '/root/.azure/cliextensions'

Python (Linux) 3.6.9 (default, Nov 15 2019, 03:58:01) 
[GCC 8.3.0]

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