Running Azure-cli commands from python script

Question

I have these azure-cli2 (which is python based) commands for creating rbac user and few other activities

az ad user create --display-name "user" --password Pass@word1 --user-principal-name "[email protected]"  --mail-nickname user
az role assignment create --role Contributor --assignee "[email protected]"
az ad sp create-for-rbac -n "testapp"

I am using the subprocess.check_output() to run these commands from python.

Is there any way directly initiate azure-cli commands from python

I am expecting for something like this:

import azure-core-cli
azure-core-cli.mycommand(param)

PS: I know ,I can get same functionality using azure Python SDK

Wouldn't it be a better idea to use Azure SDK directly in your script? After all the CLI is written as an application instead of a library. — Troy Dai
– Troy Dai, Commented May 8, 2018 at 15:57
@Troy Dai I will but that will take some time and till then I have to use this version with the variation suggested by Alex — ClumsyPuffin
– ClumsyPuffin, Commented May 9, 2018 at 2:33
Possible duplicate of How to run Azure CLI commands using python? — Andy Wong
– Andy Wong, Commented Oct 18, 2018 at 11:16

Alex Hall · Accepted Answer · 2018-05-08 15:35:28Z

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Based on this file, try:

from azure.cli.core import get_default_cli

get_default_cli().invoke(['ad', 'user', 'create', '--display-name', 'user', ...])

answered May 8, 2018 at 15:35

Alex Hall

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