Azure-cli: Azure az commands work and azure automation (Runbooks)

[nidiculageorge]

Hi Team,

Could you please let me know whether we an run PowerShell scripts ,with az commands in runbook (automation ).

When i try to run, its showing as az commands not recognized

[yonzhan]

@fengzhou-msft please take a look

[yungezz]

hi @nidiculageorge azure automation supporting python2, while azure cli is on python 3.x.

[nidiculageorge]

@yungezz is it possible to run powershell scripts with az commands in runbooks.When i try to run its showing as az command not found

[nidiculageorge]

Please see the attached screen shot

[yungezz]

that's because azure cli isn't installed. hi @qwordy could you pls help to see is there way to install azure cli inside python2 runtime by pip?

[nidiculageorge]

@yungezz why are we using python 2 as its a powershell script that we are trying to run,these are the commands that we are trying to run

az vmss deallocate --resource-group aks-poc-seabnode --name aks-seabpocln-36792229-vmss

az vmss deallocate --resource-group aks-poc-seabnode --name aksakswin

[qwordy]

I think powershell can run any command. I'll experiment.

[nidiculageorge]

@qwordy please check with az commands as its not runing in Runbook ,please refer the screenshot above

[qwordy]

I run this command to install azure cli. This command should run as an administrator.

Invoke-WebRequest -Uri https://aka.ms/installazurecliwindows -OutFile .\AzureCLI.msi; Start-Process msiexec.exe -Wait -ArgumentList '/I AzureCLI.msi /quiet'; rm .\AzureCLI.msi

I get an error.

Start-Process : This command cannot be run due to the error: The operation was canceled by the user.

Runbooks gallery contains many examples. But there is no CLI example.
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[nidiculageorge]

can you try running commands using az as mentioned above

[qwordy]

can you try running commands using az as mentioned above

The same result as you. Az is not installed be default. We need to install it first.

[nidiculageorge]

Where should we install and how that can be done

[msftbot[bot]]

Thanks for the feedback! We are routing this to the appropriate team for follow-up. cc @zjalexander.

[nidiculageorge]

Please note we need to run powershell scripts in Azure run books with az commands as mentioned above

[zjalexander]

This is not a supported Azure Automation scenario for Azure execution. See https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/automation/automation-runbook-execution#using-executables-or-calling-processes and https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/automation/automation-runbook-execution#where-to-run-your-runbooks

If you don't want to or can't change your script to use the PowerShell equivalent commands, you will need to use a hybrid worker.

[qwordy]

Thank @zjalexander for quick response. Do you have any plan to support CLI scripts in runbook?
@nidiculageorge You can try hybrid worker. It needs some configuration.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/automation/automation-hybrid-runbook-worker
Azure Pipelines is also an option. I have written bash script which contain CLI commands in Azure Pipelines. It can run successfully.

[nidiculageorge]

@qwordy @zjalexander what you are saying is,that we can configure powersell scripts with az commands in azure automation run books

[zjalexander]

@qwordy no plans at this time, the product group monitors feature requests here: https://feedback.azure.com/forums/246290-automation

@nidiculageorge If you install the azure cli on a machine, and configure that machine as a hybrid worker, and use that hybrid worker to execute a runbook - yes. There's a few considerations to take when using a hybrid worker so please review https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/automation/automation-hrw-run-runbooks, especially the sections on permissions and authentication.

[isaaccarrington]

PowerShell is NOT portable. We shouldn't have to use a myriad of YOUR tools to support YOUR products. Please consider adding the CLI so we can all be sane with some consistency.

[nidiculageorge]

@zjalexander to finalize az commands wont work on Runbooks.Running CLI from our machines is not an option

Can you please clarify on my above question

[zjalexander]

@nidiculageorge Az (CLI) commands won't work on runbooks run in the Azure sandbox.