AZ Cheat Sheet

Login and Subscription

• Login

az login --use-device-code

• Show subscription

az account show

• Set Subscription

az account set --subscription SubscriptionName

Start/Stop

• Start

az vm start -g MyResourceGroup -n MyVm

• Start all from Resource Group

az vm start --ids $(az vm list -g MyResourceGroup --query "[].id" -o tsv)

• Stop

az vm stop -g MyResourceGroup -n MyVm

• Start all from Resource Group

az vm stop --ids $(az vm list -g MyResourceGroup --query "[].id" -o tsv)

Storage-Account

• List Storage Account

az storage account list --query [*].name --output tsv
az storage account list --query [*].primaryLocation --output tsv
az storage account list --query [*].resourceGroup --query [*].name

• Create Storage Account

az storage account create --location eastus --name ContainerName --resource-group RG --sku Standard_RAGRS --kind BlobStorage --access-tier Hot

• Delete Storage-Account

 az storage account delete  --name Storage-Account-Name -y
 az storage account delete  --name Storage-Account-Name --resource-group RG
 az storage account delete  --name Storage-Account-Name --resource-group RG -y

• Get Keys

az storage account keys list --account-name ContainerName --output table
az storage account keys list --resource-group RG --account-name ContainerName --output table

• Create Container

az storage container create --name Container-Name --account-name Storage-Account-Name --account-key xyz...==

• List Container

az storage container list --account-name Storage-Account-Name --account-key xyz...== --output table

• Delete Container

 az storage container delete --account-name Storage-Account-Name --account-key xyz...== --output table

• Copy Data from local to Container

az storage blob upload-batch --destination Container-Name --pattern "*.exe" --source "c:\Users\admin\Downloads" --account-name Storage-Account-Name --account-key xyz...==

• Copy data between two container within the same Storage-Account

az storage blob copy start-batch --destination-container Container-Name --account-name Storage-Account-Name --account-key xyz...== --source-account-name Storage-Account-Name --source-account-key xyz...== --source-container Container-Name

• Copy data between two storage accounts

az storage blob copy start-batch --destination-container Container-Name --account-name Storage-Account-Name --account-key xyz...== --source-account-name Storage-Account-Name --source-account-key xyz...== --source-container ContainerName

• List Blob data (BASH)

az storage blob list -c Container-Name --account-name Storage-Account-Name --account-key xyz...==

• List Blob data (BASH), Filenames only

az storage blob list -c Container-Name --account-name Storage-Account-Name --account-key xyz...== --query [*].name --output tsv

• List Blob data and put it into an Array (BASH), watch the query and output

BLOBS=$(az storage blob list -c Container-Name --account-name Storage-Account-Name --account-key xyz...== --query [*].name --output tsv)

• List Array data

for BLOB in $BLOBS
do
 echo "$BLOB"
done

• List Array data and download to /mnt/d/test/

for BLOB in $BLOBS
do
 echo "Download: $BLOB"
 az storage blob download -n $BLOB -f /mnt/d/test/$BLOB -c ContainerName --account-name StorageAccountName --account-key xyz...==
done

• Delete BLOB

 az storage blob delete-batch --source ContainerName --pattern '*.gz' --account-name Storage-Account-Name --account-key xyz...==

SAS Keys

• Create SAS Token on BLOB

az storage blob generate-sas \
--account-name Storage-Account-Name \
--account-key xyz...== \
--container-name Container-Name \
--name file-Name \
--permissions acdrw \
--expiry 2021-01-18

• Test

https://<StorageAccount-Name>.blob.core.windows.net/<Container-Name>/<FileName>?xyz...==

• /Create SAS Token on Container

Important: You need to add yourself to the role Storage Blob Data Contributor, it will NOT WORK if you skip this step, for mor informattion see: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/common/storage-auth-aad-rbac-portal

az storage container generate-sas     
--account-name Storage-Account-Name     
--name Container-Name
--permissions acdlrw     
--expiry 2021-01-20     
--auth-mode login     
--as-user

• Note that the key MUST contain ske and sig , otherwise the key is INVALID, Valid return looks like:

"se=2021-01-20&sp=racwdl&sv=2018-11-09&sr=c&skoid=139be1d7-4d53-4d8a-90e2-cc7ace745ad1&sktid=71d4c841-93b3-47b4-ab47-88c7d11f56d2&skt=2021-01-16T19%3A37%3A54Z&ske=2021-01-20T00%3A00%3A00Z&sks=b&skv=2018-11-09&sig=LMhhiOrZoEQPxgaemkKOZ2eY8W6Ee4ZE5zEWZu2y4Js%3D"

Snapshots

• Get DiskID

diskID=$(az vm show  --resource-group "MyResourceGroup" --name "MyVMName" --query "storageProfile.osDisk.managedDisk.id" | grep -oP 'disks/\K.+' | rev | cut -c2- | rev)

/Create a date string

now=$(date -u +"%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M")

• Create Snaphost

az snapshot create --name "Snapshot_$now" --resource-group "MyResourceGroup" --source $diskID

• List Snapshot

az snapshot list --resource-group "MyResourceGroup"

• Delete Snapshot:

az snapshot delete --ids "<snapshot_id>"

Copy Snapshot to Storage Account

Note: To do this you need to have or need to convert your Storage into a General Purpose v2 account

• Provide the subscription Id where snapshot is created

subscriptionId="..."

• Provide the name of your resource group where snapshot is created

resourceGroupName="..."

• Provide the snapshot name

snapshotName="Snapshot_2021-01-22-18-31"

• Provide Shared Access Signature (SAS) expiry duration in seconds e.g. 3600.
• Know more about SAS here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/storage-dotnet-shared-access-signature-part-1

sasExpiryDuration=3600

• Provide storage account name where you want to copy the snapshot.

storageAccountName="StorageAccountName"

• Name of the storage container where the downloaded snapshot will be stored

storageContainerName="ContainerName"

• Provide the key of the storage account where you want to copy snapshot.

storageAccountKey="...."

• Provide the name of the VHD file to which snapshot will be copied.

destinationVHDFileName="ubuntutest.vhdx"

• Optional set your Subscription ID

az account set --subscription $subscriptionId

• Get an SAS Token

sas=$(az snapshot grant-access --resource-group $resourceGroupName --name $snapshotName --duration-in-seconds $sasExpiryDuration --query [accessSas] -o tsv)

• Copy your Snapshot to your Storage Account

az storage blob copy start --destination-blob $destinationVHDFileName --destination-container $storageContainerName --account-name $storageAccountName --account-key $storageAccountKey --source-uri $sas

Links

• https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/azure-docs/blob/master/articles/storage/files/storage-how-to-use-files-cli.md
• https://github.com/Azure/azure-cli-samples/blob/master/storage/blobs.md