Getting started with Azure CLI

This chapter is to login to the Azure CLI from your student machine as you may not want to use the Azure Cloud shell all the time.

Login to the Azure CLI on the student machine

First check if you are already logged in

az account list

If you aren't logged in, you should get this output.

Please run "az login" to access your accounts.
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Now that we know we don't have Azure account setup, we can use the following command to begin. The --use-device-code parameter is used to generate a code that can be used to authenticate with the web backend

az login --use-device-code

We will get something like this

To sign in, use a web browser to open the page https://microsoft.com/devicelogin and enter the code XXXXXXX to authenticate.

Note the code XXXXXXX mentioned.

Browse to the URL and enter the code when asked.

Enter the code

Confirm by clicking on Continue

Click on continue

Select your account

Select your account

Web page will confirmed you are logged in

Web page will confirmed you are logged in

Switch back to the window where you typed the az login command

Succesfully logged in and authenticated

Note the id from the previous output.

Once you are logged in

List the azure account

az account list

Only if you were already logged in, get the default Azure account if you have more than one.

az account list | jq '.[] | select(.isDefault==true) | {subname: .name, username: .user.name}'

Set this new account as default

az account set --subscription <PROVIDE YOUR ID FROM PREVIOUS OUTPUT>