az login

Log in to Azure. Part of azure-cli (also known as az). More information: https://learn.microsoft.com/cli/azure/reference-index#az-login.

• Log in interactively:

az login

• Log in with a service principal using a client secret:

az login --service-principal --username http://azure-cli-service-principal --password secret --tenant someone.onmicrosoft.com

• Log in with a service principal using a client certificate:

az login --service-principal --username http://azure-cli-service-principal --password path/to/cert.pem --tenant someone.onmicrosoft.com

• Log in using a VM’s system assigned identity:

az login --identity

• Log in using a VM’s user assigned identity:

az login --identity --username /subscriptions/subscription_id/resourcegroups/my_rg/providers/Microsoft.ManagedIdentity/userAssignedIdentities/my_id