Managing resources in Azure from the command line can be done natively from Ubuntu using the Azure CLI. First, add the prerequisite packages.
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install ca-certificates curl apt-transport-https lsb-release gnupg -y
Then install the Microsoft signing key and add the custom repository.
curl -sL https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc | gpg --dearmor | sudo tee /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/microsoft.gpg > /dev/null echo "deb [arch=amd64] https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/azure-cli/ $(lsb_release -cs) main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/azure-cli.list
Finally, install the Azure CLI.
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install azure-cli -y az --version
If on a Linux desktop with a GUI browser, this command will spawn a browser that establishes authentication.
# if on a desktop GUI az login # prove authentication az group list -o table
However, if you are on a headless server then you will need to generate a code that can then be used from a device that does have browser access (https://aka.ms/devicelogin or https://microsoft.com/devicelogin).
# force authentication via code az login --use-device-code # prove authentication az group list -o table
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