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16 mentions on Hacker News by 16 people: 3 stories, 13 comments · first 2016-09-27 · latest 2026-10-23

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    Azure CLI still trusts compromised eMudhra CA; fix targeted for November 16
    story by willejs · 2026-10-23 · 0 comments
  2. …an installed az cli is now 700 MB+ of Python code and different bundled python versions... [0]: https://github.com/Azure/azure-cli/issues/7387
    comment by filleokus · 2025-07-02 · in Azure API vulnerability and roles misconfiguration compromise corporate networks
  3. …monstrosity bloating up a docker container. By now the thing weighs more than 1.5 GB. Fucking MS. https://github.com/Azure/azure-cli/issues/7387
    comment by isoprophlex · 2025-02-08 · in Fat Rand: How many lines do you need to generate a random number?
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    Azure CLI converts local accounts to MSFT online accounts on Win11
    story by transportheap · 2024-07-16 · 1 comment
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    Azure CLI takes ~700MB of disk space
    story by Grimburger · 2023-11-30 · 2 comments
  6. …is available for someone to take a swing at an Azure version: * the cli uses the python SDK: https://github.com/Azure/azure-cli/blob/azure-cli-2.38.0/src... * which uses autorest: https://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-python/tree/azure-mgm…
    comment by mdaniel · 2022-07-22 · in LocalStack 1.0
  7. …`az` and stopped using `powershell`) [1]: https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/issues/6184 [2]: https://github.com/Azure/azure-cli/issues/7523
    comment by Arnavion · 2021-06-02 · in OpenSUSE Leap 15.3
  8. …the script used to build deb package for azure-cli is a bit weird and not really a thing of beauty: https://github.com/Azure/azure-cli/blob/dev/build_scripts/de...
    comment by kakwa_ · 2018-06-12 · in Microsoft’s failed attempt on Debian packaging
  9. …up! Another data point - the official Azure CLI was just rewritten in Python (win/macos/linux): https://github.com/Azure/azure-cli Thanks!
    comment by smortaz · 2016-12-05 · in Azure Jupyter Notebooks
  10. …over jq is that JMESPath is a spec, and thus can be implemented in several languages [1]. [0]: https://github.com/Azure/azure-cli [1]: http://jmespath.org/libraries.html
    comment by Slippery_John · 2016-12-03 · in Jq – Work with JSON on the command line
  11. Thanks, we updated the link from https://github.com/Azure/azure-cli .
    comment by sctb · 2016-09-27 · in Announcing Azure Command-Line Interface 2.0 Preview
  12. …rewrite it in a language that fits wider goals. Their motivation[1] seems pretty solid. [1] https://github.com/Azure/azure-cli/wiki/Motivation
    comment by pfranz · 2016-09-27 · in Announcing Azure Command-Line Interface 2.0 Preview
  13. Looks like the are going for both 2 and 3 support? https://github.com/Azure/azure-cli/blob/master/scripts/dev_s... EDIT: Nah, only 3. So much for Microsoft and it's legendary backwards compatibility. https://github.com/Azure/azure-cli/blob/…
    comment by cmdrfred · 2016-09-27 · in Announcing Azure Command-Line Interface 2.0 Preview
  14. …precluded building the next CLI in Node.js, Python was the natural choice. taken from here - https://github.com/Azure/azure-cli/wiki/Motivation
    comment by sagivo · 2016-09-27 · in Announcing Azure Command-Line Interface 2.0 Preview
  15. Answers: https://github.com/Azure/azure-cli/wiki/Motivation
    comment by WallowC_33 · 2016-09-27 · in Announcing Azure Command-Line Interface 2.0 Preview
  16. Link to the motivation page: https://github.com/Azure/azure-cli/wiki/Motivation
    comment by jontro · 2016-09-27 · in Announcing Azure Command-Line Interface 2.0 Preview