AZ-104 Certification Notes

Chapter 2.3 - Using Azure CLI and PowerShell

Describing Azure CLI and PowerShell

• What is the Azure CLI?
  • It's a command-line utility for managing Azure resources
  • Create and manage resources without logging in to the Azure portal
  • Create scripts to automate tasks
• What is Azure PowerShell?
  • It's set of cmdlets for managing Azure resources
  • Create and manage resources without logging in to the Azure portal
  • Create scripts to automate tasks

Basic Operations

For some basic operations that can be performed with these, we could do things like create resource groups. For example:

• PowerShell
  • New-AzResourceGroup `
  • -ResourceGroupName $rg `
  • -Location $location `
• Azure CLI
  • az group create \
  • -name $rg \
  • -location $location

Azure CLI and PowerShell Basics

• Manage Azure resources locally
• Create scripts for automation
• No need to log in to the Azure portal