Install and Run Azure CLI on Mac

Azure Portal Console is awesome, but using Azure CLI open infinity possibilities

Marcello Marrocos
DevOps, Cloud & IT Career

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If you, like me, are new to Mac and don’t want to use only Azure Portal to manage your Azure resources, come with me on this article to install the Azure CLI on your Mac.

Disclaimer

I am new to Mac. I’m a Microsoft user since MS-DOS 6.0 and Windows 3.1, so you do the math, and you know how long I’m on the road.

But recently, I decided to jump in and acquired a MacBook Pro — Black Friday helped with that. And the adaptation is being more comfortable than I thought.

Prologue

On a DevOpsDC meetup, I mentioned to a friend that I was setting up my development environment on Mac and was learning everything from scratch. She just replied:

Oh, that’s easy, just install Homebrew and you’re good to go!

I honestly didn’t understand. And this time was not an English problem!

Azure CLI

What is not new to me is working on Azure. And the Azure portal is a great tool, friendly, and easy to use. But we need to agree that a GUI is suitable for particular tasks, but if you need successive commands running or create multiple…

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Marcello Marrocos
DevOps, Cloud & IT Career

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