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Getting started with Azure CLI

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Getting started with Azure CLI

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- [Instructor] Azure resources are managed by rest-based APIs that support the creation, update, and deleting of services that they represent. The Azure portal uses the resource manager to animate these interfaces, but that's not exactly a repeatable process to go into the portal. Explaining to team members what to click on and where it is in the portal is cumbersome and prone to error. Because of this, since Azure was launched, there's been a need for being able to repeat the provisioning processes, and that resulted in some PowerShell cmdlets that interact with the API. This worked great for scenarios where Powershell's an option, but in the ever modernizing and Linux-based world, a need for a cross platform tool came to be, and what evolved was the Azure CLI, which is installable across platform, meaning Windows, Linux, and the Mac, but it provides a consistent interface for working with the resources in Azure from the command line. It's extensible and enables us to script the…

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