[Forum FAQ]How to use Azure Cross-Platform Command-Line interface in Mac OS

Question

1. Download the installer on Microsoft Azure website.
Figure 1.
2. Open the DMG file and install the following package.
Figure 2.
3. Open Terminal (Mac OS build-in), type “azure login” and enter your azure account to login.
(Note: you can login only via a Microsoft organizational account or service principal.) We used a Microsoft account to connect. (Figure 3)
Figure 3.
After that, we can use the commands to manager Azure instances and services. You can type “azure help” to list all the available commands.
Figure 4.
If you want to view the detailed information for a specific command, you can type “azure help xxx”. For example, we can run “azure
help vm” to list all the commands for managing Azure Virtual Machines.
Figure 5.
In the figure below, we used the “vm create” command to create a new virtual Machine (testmachine002) in a new cloud service (testmachine003)
and virtual network (vnet1).
Figure 6.
To obtain the image name, you can type “azure vm image list”:
Figure 7.
After the “vm create” command executed, we can find that the Virtual Machine(testmachine002) is created in Azure management portal.
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More information:
http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/xplat-cli/
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Answer 1

Here on Apple Discussions, you will find many command line enthusiasts hanging out in the UNIX forum. Good luck.