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azure-cli

brew install azure-cli v2.87.0 MIT

Cross-platform command-line tool for managing Microsoft Azure cloud resources and services.

Why you might care

Essential if you work with Azure infrastructure; provides scripting and automation capabilities for provisioning, deploying, and managing Azure resources directly from the shell. Replaces manual Azure Portal interactions and integrates into CI/CD pipelines. Written in Python with native extensions for performance-critical operations.

Categories

cli cloud-computing infrastructure

Alternatives

aws-cli gcloud terraform

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Runtime dependencies

libsodium libyaml openssl@3 python@3.13

Build dependencies

pkgconf rust

Links

https://docs.microsoft.com/cli/azure/overview
Brew formula source: Formula/a/azure-cli.rb

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