Azure 101

Tools/Skills: Azure CLI, Azure Cloud Environment

SYNOPSIS

The goal is to learn about the North Pole's cloud environment, including VMs and other resources with the use of Azure.

Through the challenge, I found account info, resource groups, functionapps within a resource group, and details of virtual machines. I also invoked a run-command to reveal a file in a vm.

SOLUTION

1. Go to azure help menu

   az help | less (help menu)

1. Show Account Info

   az account show | less

1. List Resource Groups

   az group list | less

1. List all functionapps in Resource Group “northpole-rg1”

   az functionapp list –resource-group northpole-rg1 | less

1. List details of virtual machines in the Resource Group “northpole-rg2”

   az vm list -g northpole-rg2 | less

1. Invoke a run-command against vm and RunShellScript to get a directory listing to reveal a file on the Azure VM

   az vm run-command invoke --resource-group northpole-rg2 --name NP-VM1 --command-id RunShellScript --scripts "ls -l" --output json

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ChatGPT Prompt/Answer

Prompts:

• How do I: Find a way to invoke a run-command against the only Virtual Machine (VM) so you can RunShellScript and get a directory listing to reveal a file on the Azure VM?

• What do I need to change about this command to have it list the directory? az vm run-command invoke -g northpole-rg2 -n NP-VM1 --command-id RunShellScript