Azure CLI

Azure CLI is Microsoft's official command line for Azure resource management, identity-aware authentication, and service operations across compute, storage, networking, deployments, and policy. It also exposes lower-level escape hatches like az rest and az account get-access-token when you need to script Azure or Microsoft Graph APIs directly.

• Create, inspect, update, and delete Azure resources such as resource groups, virtual machines, storage accounts, networks, registries, and other service objects from one shell surface.
• Run ARM or Bicep deployments, validate templates, execute What-If previews, query subscription state, and fetch access tokens for follow-up automation.
• Use authenticated raw REST calls when the higher-level command surface is not enough, while still reusing current cloud, subscription, and credential context.

• Broad use of --output and --query makes results easy to parse in inspect/change/verify loops, and many commands return structured objects instead of human-only text.
• Most operational commands are non-interactive once auth and subscription context are set, but az login can open a browser or launch interactive subscription selection with no JSON output.
• Best for agents already operating in Azure-heavy environments that need one control surface spanning first-party services plus authenticated az rest fallbacks.

• Authentication and subscription selection can be interactive; service principal, managed identity, or device-code flows are safer choices for unattended runs.
• The command surface is huge and defaults often favor local context or human-readable output, so stable automation should set explicit subscription, output, and non-interactive flags.