Quick az cli with docker

Quick az cli with docker

Use Docker to creadte an quick and up to date az cli alias on Linux.

Setup

Create local container with lastest image

docker run -it --name azure-cli -v $HOME/.azure/:/root/.azure mcr.microsoft.com/azure-cli

Create az alias for azure-cli

echo "alias az='docker start -i azure-cli'" >> ~/.bashrc
source  ~/.bashrc

Test : Type az on terminal must display bash promt. Inside it, type az --version must display cli version infos.

Authentication

az login

Azure config folder will be created $HOME/.azure and will be mounted inside azure-cli every time it started.

More

• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/run-azure-cli-docker?view=azure-cli-latest