This project provides a cross platform command line tool for developers and administrators to develop, deploy and manage Windows Azure applications.

• Accounts
  • Download and import Azure publish settings
  • List imported Azure subscriptions
  • Select current subscription
  • Manage Azure environments
  • Create and manage affinity groups
  • Export management certificate
• Storage
  • Create and manage Storage Accounts
  • Create and manage container, blob and ACL
• Websites
  • Create and manage Windows Azure websites
  • Download site log files and get real time log streaming
  • Manage Deployments
  • Configure GitHub integration
• Virtual machines
  • Create and manage Windows and Linux Virtual machines
  • Create and manage VM endpoints
  • Create and manage Virtual Machine Images
  • Create and manage certificates
• Network
  • Import and export network configuration
  • Create and manage virtual network
  • Create and manage DNS server
• Mobile Services
  • Create and manage Mobile Services
  • Manage tables, scripts, and configuration
  • Access logs
  • Access data
• Service Bus
  • Create and manage Service Bus namespaces
• Azure SQL Server
  • Create and manage SQL Servers, Firewall rules and Databases

To get the source code of the SDK via git just type:

git clone https://github.com/WindowsAzure/azure-sdk-tools-xplat.git
cd ./azure-sdk-tools-xplat
npm install 

You can install the azure cli npm package directly.

npm install -g azure-cli

Autocomplete is supported in the azure CLI.

To enable it in zsh, you can write:

echo '. <(azure --completion)' >> .zshrc

To enable it in bash, you can write:

azure --completion >> ~/azure.completion.sh<br />

echo 'source ~/azure.completion.sh' >> .bash_profile

The azure cli has several top-level commands, which correspond to different features of Windows Azure. Each top-level command is then broken up into further sub commands. Typing "azure" by itself or "azure --help" will list out each of the sub commands.

Below is a list of some of the more common commands and explanations on how to use them.

In order to use the CLI, you must first import credentials.

azure account download

Download your credentials from Windows Azure. Logs you in to the Azure portal and downloads a publishsettings file.

azure account import [file]

Imports previously downloaded credentials

You can create and manage affinity groups.

azure account affinity-group list

Lists all your affinity groups

azure account affinity-group create [name]

Creates a new affinity group

--location - Location for the affinity group

azure account affinity-group show [name]

Display details about an affinity group

azure account affinity-group delete [name]

Removes the affinity group

You can create and manage store accounts for leveraging blobs, tables and queues within your applications.

azure account storage list

Lists all your storage accounts

azure account storage create [name]

Creates a new storage account

--location - Location for the storage account

--affinity-group - Affinity group for the storage account

Note: Either location or affinity group is required.

azure account storage update [name]

Updates a storage account label, description, etc.

azure account storage delete [name]

Removes the storage account

azure account storage keys list [name]

Lists out storage account keys for the specified account

azure account storage keys renew [name]

Renews storage account keys for the specified account

You can list storage container

azure storage container list -a <account name> -k <access key>

Lists all the containers in the storage account.

azure storage container show -a <account name> -k <access key> [container]

Show the details for a specific container.

azure storage container create -a <account name> -k <access key> [container]

Create a container

azure storage container delete -a <account name> -k <access key> [container]

Delete a container

azure storage container set -a <account name> -k <access key> -p <permission> [container]

Set the ACL of a specific container

You can create websites for deploying static HTML, node.js, PHP, and .NET applications.

azure site list

Lists all your websites

azure site create [site]

Creates a new Windows Azure website. If run in a folder that has an app.js or a server.js, we will assume this is a node.js application and create an iisnode.yml file for configuring the node hosted environment.

--git - create a git repo for deploying the application. Will call "git init" to initialize the local folder as repo and will add an "azure" remote for the remote repository. --publishingUsername can be used for scripting scenarios. If publishing user is not provider, you will be prompted. ex. "azure site create foo --git".

--github - connect this website to a github repo. If run in a local repo, will use the remotes present. --githubusername / --githubpassword / -- githubrepository can be used for scripting scenarios. If these are not provided, you will be prompted. ex. "azure site create foo --github"

azure site show [site]

Lists the details for a specific website.

azure site browse [site]

Opens the website in the browser.

azure site delete [site]

Deletes the current site. Will prompt for deletion.

azure site stop [site]

Stops the website

azure site start [site]

Starts the website

azure site restart [site]

Stops and starts the website

azure site deploymentscript 

Generates a bash or cmd script for customizing the deployment of your Website

--quiet - overrides prompting for delete.

Note: Above [site] is not required if the command is run in the main app folder.

You can set application settings, which will propagate to environment variables for your node and PHP applications. Changes are instant, and you do not need to stop/start the app to pick up the new variables.

azure site config list [site]

Lists all application settings.

azure site config add [keyvaluepair] [site]

Adds a new app setting. [keyvaluepair] is of the form "[key]=[value]" i.e. "foo=bar".

azure site config clear [key] [site]

Removes the specified app setting.

azure site config get [key] [site]

Retrieves the value for the selected key.

azure site log tail [options] [name]

Streams live diagnostic logs from your website to the console --path [path] - Path under the LogFiles folder to pull logs from.

--filter - Filter to match against for displaying log output.

--log - Write output in a log format.

You can change your scale mode and number of instances for your websites in Windows Azure.

azure site scale mode [name] [mode]

Set the web site scale mode

--mode - The mode for the site: free, shared, or reserved

azure site scale instances [name] [instances] [size]

Sets the number and size of instances for a web site

instances - number of instances

--size - size of instances to run: small, medium, or large

You can create and manage both Windows and Linux virtual machines in Windows Azure.

azure vm list

List your virtual machines and their statuses

azure vm location list

List available locations for hosting virtual machines.

azure vm create [name] [image] [username] [password] [location]

Create a new virtual machine using the specific image and credentials. An image can be a base image or an custom image uploaded to your account ex. "azure create myvm SUSE__openSUSE-12-1-20120603-en-us-30GB.vhd user pa$$w0rd westus".

--ssh [port] - Enable a Linux VM to be remotely administered via ssh. By default port 22 is chosen.

--rdp [port] - Enable a Windows VM to be remotely administered via RDP. By default port 3389 is chosen.

--community - Specifies that the image is a community image

azure vm create-from [name] [rolefile]

Create a virtual machine from a previously exported rolefile.

azure vm export [name] [file]

Export a virtual machine definition.

azure vm show [name]

Display details about the VM.

azure vm shutdown [name]

Stop the virtual machine

azure vm start

Start a previously shutdown virtual machine

azure vm restart [name]

Restart the virtual machine

azure vm delete [name]

Delete the virtual machine

Windows Azure allows you to create virtual machines using a set of preconfigured based images or using your own custom images which you create either by uploaded, or saving an existing vm.

azure vm image list

List base and custom vm images

azure vm image show [image]

Show details about a specific image

azure vm image create [name] [path]

Upload a new custom image. The path can point to a local file or a public hosted blob, including a secure blob.

--os [os] - specify the OS, "Linux" or "Windows"

--basevhd [blob] - Specify a base vhd blob url.

--source-key [key] - If the blob is secured, specifies the access key.

azure vm image delete [name]

Deletes the specified image.

You can create additional data disks, which you mount within your virtual machines.

azure vm disk list

Lists available data disks

azure vm disk show [name]

Displays details on a specific disk

azure vm disk create [name] [path]

Uploads and creates a new disk using the specified path. The path can point to a local file or a public hosted blob, including a secure blob.

--source-key [key] - If the blob is secured, specifies the access key.

azure vm disk attach [vm-name] [image]

Attaches an image to an existing VM.

azure vm disk detach [vm-name] [image]

Detaches an image from an existing VM.

You can create and manage your mobile services right from the cli. You can create new services and databases, work directly with table data, and manage scripts and more.

azure mobile list

Lists all mobile services for this subscription

azure mobile create [servicename] [sqlAdminUsername] [sqlAdminPassword]

Creates a new mobile service using the specific service name. Also creates a new SQL Database using the specified user and password.

azure mobile show [servicename]

Displays details about a mobile service including database details, applicationUrl and applicationKey

azure mobile delete [servicename]

Deletes a mobile service

azure mobile scale show [servicename]

Show the scalability settings of a mobile sservice

azure mobile scale change [options] [servicename]

Change the scalability settings of a mobile service

--tier [tier] - 'Free', 'Standard' or 'Premium'

--numberOfInstances [count] - number of instances in standard or premium mode.

azure mobile log [servicename]

Retrieves mobile logs

You can configure your Microsoft account, Facebook, Twitter, Google and push notification settings using these commands.

azure mobile config list [servicename]

Lists the available mobile configuration settings and their values

azure mobile config set [servicename] [key] [value]

Sets mobile configuration settings

azure mobile config get [servicename] [key]

Gets a specific mobile configuration setting

azure mobile table list [servicename]

List the tables for a specific service

azure mobile table create [servicename] [tablename]

Creates a new table for your mobile service

--permissions [permissions] - comma delimited list of <operation>=<permission> pairs

azure mobile table show [servicename] [tablename]

Display table details such as the number of records, the list of columns and which scripts are defined.

azure mobile table update [options] [servicename] [tablename] 

Updates mobile table schema, permissions and indexes

--permissions [permissions] - comma delimited list of <operation>=<permission> pairs

--deleteColumn [columns] - comma delimited list of columns to delete

azure mobile table delete [servicename] [tablename]

Deletes a mobile table

You can create and upload scripts for your table operations.

azure mobile script list

List scripts for the specified service

azure mobile script download [servicename] [scriptname]

Downloads the specified script. Table script names are in the format table/.{read|insert|update|delete} (e.g. table/todoitem.insert)

azure mobile script upload [servicename] [scriptname]

Uploads a script

azure mobile script delete [servicename] [scriptname]

Deletes a script

azure mobile data read [servicename] [tablename] [query]

Query a mobile service table

azure mobile data truncate [servicename] [tablename]

Delete all data from a mobile service table --quiet - do not prompt before deleting

azure mobile job list [servicename]

List jobs

azure mobile job create [servicename] [jobname]

Create a new job

--interval [number] - Interval for executing the job, defaults to 15.

--intervalUnit [unit] - 'minute', 'hour', 'day', 'month' or 'none'.

--startTime [time] - Time that the script should start in ISO format

azure mobile job update [servicename] [jobname]

Update job settings

--interval [number] - Interval for executing the job, defaults to 15.

--intervalUnit [unit] - 'minute', 'hour', 'day', 'month' or 'none'.

--startTime [time] - Time that the script should start in ISO format

--status [status] - 'enabled' or 'disabled'

azure mobile job delete [servicename] [jobname]

Delete a scheduled job

azure mobile api list [servicename]

List custom APIs

azure mobile api create [servicename] [apiname]

Create a new custom API

--permissions [permissions] - comma delimited list of <method>=<permission> pairs

azure mobile api update [servicename] [apiname]

Update a custom API

--permissions [permissions] - comma delimited list of <method>=<permission> pairs

azure mobile api delete [servicename] [apiname]

Delete a custom API

azure sb namespace list

List all your Service Bus namespaces

azure sb namespace create [namespace] [region]

Create a new Service Bus namespace in the specified region

azure sb namespace show [name]

Display details about a namespace such as the connection string and endpoint information

azure sb namespace check [name]

Check if a namespace is available

azure sb namespace delete [name]

Delete a namespace

azure sb namespace location list

Lists all available regions for creating new namespaces

azure sql server show [serverName]

Display server details

azure sql server list

Lists all your Azure SQL Servers

azure sql server create [administratorLogin] [administratorPassword] [location]

Create a new Azure SQL Server

--administratorLogin - Administrator login user

--administratorPassword - Administrator Password

--location - Region where the server will be located

azure sql server delete [serverName]

Delete an Azure SQL Server

azure sql firewallrule create [serverName] [ruleName] [startIPAddress] [endIPAddress]

Create a new firewall rule

--serverName - Server to create the rule on.

--ruleName - Name for the rule

--startIPAddress - Start IP Range for the rule

--endIPAddress - (Optional) End IP Range for the rule. If not supplied this will equal startIPAddress.

azure sql firewallrule show [serverName] [rulename]

Show details for a firewall rule

--serverName - Server the rule resides on.

--ruleName - Rule to show

azure sql firewallrule list [serverName]

List all firewall rules on specified server.

--serverName - Server to list rules for

azure sql firewall delete [serverName] [ruleName]

Delete a rule

--serverName - Server where the rule resides

--ruleName - Rule to delete.

azure sql db create [serverName] [databaseName] [administratorLogin] [administratorPassword] [options]

Create a new database

--serverName - Server to create the database on

--databaseName - Name for the database

--administratorLogin - Administrator login user

--administratorPassword - Administrator Password

--collationName - Collation for the DB

--edition - Database edition

--maxSizeInGB - Database max size

azure sql db list [serverName] [administratorLogin] [administratorPassword]

List databases

--serverName - Server to create the database on

--administratorLogin - Administrator login user

--administratorPassword - Administrator Password

azure sql db show [serverName] [databaseName] [administratorLogin] [administratorPassword]

Show database details

--serverName - Server to create the database on

--databaseName - Name for the database

--administratorLogin - Administrator login user

--administratorPassword - Administrator Password

azure sql db delete [serverName] [databaseName] [administratorPassword]

Delete a database

--serverName - Server to create the database on

--databaseName - Name for the database

--administratorPassword - Administrator Password

For more details on the commands, please see the command line tool reference and this How to Guide

Be sure to check out the Windows Azure Developer Forums on Stack Overflow if you have trouble with the provided code.

If you would like to become an active contributor to this project please follow the instructions provided in Windows Azure Projects Contribution Guidelines.

If you encounter any bugs with the library please file an issue in the Issues section of the project.

The tests included in the repository execute CLI commands against live Widows Azure management endpoints. In order to run the tests, you must have a Windows Azure subscription as well as a GitHub account.

Before running tests, you must take a one-time action to configure the CLI with the Windows Azure subscription by running

azure account download
azure account import

Next, provide the following parameters by setting environment variables:

• AZURE_STORAGE_ACCOUNT - your Windows Azure Storage Account name
• AZURE_STORAGE_ACCESS_KEY - secret access key to that Storage Account
• AZURE_SERVICEBUS_NAMESPACE - your Windows Azure Service Bus Namespace
• AZURE_SERVICEBUS_ACCESS_KEY - secret access to that Service Bus namespace
• AZURE_GITHUB_USERNAME - GitHub account username
• AZURE_GITHUB_PASSWORD - GitHub account password
• AZURE_GITHUB_REPOSITORY - name an empty GitHub repository to use during tests (e.g. tjanczuk/clitest)

To run the tests, call

npm test

from the root of your clone of the repository. Most tests execute against live Windows Azure management APIs, and running them takes considerable time.

Note: by default, the tests targeting the Windows Azure Mobile Services run against a mocked Windows Azure HTTP endpoints. In order to execute these tests against live Windows Azure management APIs instead, set the NOCK_OFF=true environment variable before running the tests.

For documentation on how to host Node.js applications on Windows Azure, please see the Windows Azure Node.js Developer Center.

For more extensive documentation on the new cross platform CLI tool for Mac and Linux, please see this reference and this How to Guide

Check out our new IRC channel on freenode, node-azure.