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Azure Context

Introduction

It is important to ensure you are are logged in with the correct security principal and that you are in the correct subscription.

This is called context for short.

Show Context

Get the context of your current session:

az account show --output jsonc

Check:

  • User principal name and type
  • tenantId
  • id (which is the subscriptionId)

Changing User

An AAD security principal is either a standard user principal, or a service principal. Managed identity is a variant of a service principal.

  • Use az login to login as a different security principal.
  • Use the --tenant switch to login as a guest user into another tenant.
  • Use the --service-principal or --identity switches if logging in as a service principal or a managed identity.

Use az login --help to view usage and examples.

Listing subscriptions

az account list --output table

Changing subscription

az account set --subscription <subscriptionId>

You can also use the name of the subscription as a string.

Note that this will become your new default when you log in as the current user.

Aliases

If you are constantly switching between subscriptions then consider adding an alias to your .bashrc file.

For example:

alias vs='az account set --subscription 2d31be49-d959-4415-bb65-8aec2c90ba62; az account show --output yamlc'