Azure CLI

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Each book explains Azure CLI in context, with comparison tables and the common traps.

Terms in this definition

• Chat message roles

  Labels on chat messages: instructions go under system, the person's input under user, the model's previous answers under assistant, and results returned by a called tool under tool (or function).

• Agents (classic) API

  First-generation Foundry Agent Service API, based on threads, messages and runs. It is deprecated, replaced by conversations and responses, and retires on 31 March 2027.

• Login

  A server-wide security principal used for connecting to SQL Server or an Azure SQL logical server; users inside each database are linked to it. EXECUTE AS LOGIN can't be used in Azure SQL Database.

• General-purpose v1

  The older storage account kind (Storage), which lacks access tiers, Archive and premium file shares and retires on 13 October 2026. Converting to ZRS requires first upgrading to GPv2, a one-way change.

• Exclusions

  Scopes taken out of a policy assignment; they can only narrow its coverage, never widen it.

• State

  A parameter in OAuth that carries custom data through the authorisation flow and back, as with the "Support state parameter" option in APIM.

Related terms

• az acr build

  Azure CLI command for an ACR quick task, which sends the build context to Azure, builds the image there and pushes the result into a registry that already exists.

• az acr create

  Use this Azure CLI command, specifying a SKU, to provision a new container registry.

• az acr credential

  Group of Azure CLI commands for viewing or regenerating the admin-user credentials of a registry.

• az acr login

  Azure CLI command that uses the signed-in Microsoft Entra identity to log Docker in to a registry, so that pushes and pulls work.

• az aks

  Azure CLI commands for managing AKS. For example, az aks install-cli installs kubectl, while running az aks update or az aks nodepool update with --enable-cluster-autoscaler --min-count --max-count enables autoscaling.

• az cognitiveservices account create

  Azure CLI command creating a Foundry Tools or Foundry resource based on --location, --sku and --kind. Customer-managed key configuration belongs in --encryption; --assign-identity merely creates a managed identity.

• az container create

  Azure CLI command that deploys a container group to Azure Container Instances. Its options cover the image, exposed ports, a VNet subnet, the restart policy, and registry access through credentials or --acr-identity.

• az deployment group create

  Azure CLI command for deploying a template into a resource group that already exists.