Azure 101
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Help Sparkle Redberry with some Azure command line skills. Find the elf and the terminal on Christmas Island.
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Azure CLI Reference
From: Sparkle Redberry
The Azure CLI tools come with a builtin help system, but Microsoft also provides this handy cheatsheet.
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| You may not know this but the Azure cli help messages are very easy to access. First, try typing:
$ az help | less
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elf@7467e82d184b:~$ az help | less
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| Next, you've already been configured with credentials. Use 'az' and your 'account' to 'show' your current details and make sure to pipe to less ( | less )
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elf@7467e82d184b:~$ az account show
{
"environmentName": "AzureCloud",
"id": "2b0942f3-9bca-484b-a508-abdae2db5e64",
"isDefault": true,
"name": "northpole-sub",
"state": "Enabled",
"tenantId": "90a38eda-4006-4dd5-924c-6ca55cacc14d",
"user": {
"name": "northpole@northpole.invalid",
"type": "user"
}
}
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| Excellent! Now get a list of resource groups in Azure.
For more information: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/group?view=azure-cli-latest
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elf@7467e82d184b:~$ az group list
[
{
"id": "/subscriptions/2b0942f3-9bca-484b-a508-abdae2db5e64/resourceGroups/northpole-rg1",
# Output removed to shorten report
"name": "northpole-rg1",
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},
{
"id": "/subscriptions/2b0942f3-9bca-484b-a508-abdae2db5e64/resourceGroups/northpole-rg2",
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"name": "northpole-rg2",
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}
]
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| Ok, now use one of the resource groups to get a list of function apps. For more information: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/functionapp?view=azure-cli-latest
Note: Some of the information returned from this command relates to other cloud assets used by Santa and his elves.
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elf@7467e82d184b:~$ az functionapp list -g northpole-rg1
[
{
"appServicePlanId": "/subscriptions/2b0942f3-9bca-484b-a508-abdae2db5e64/resourceGroups/nor
thpole-rg1/providers/Microsoft.Web/serverfarms/EastUSLinuxDynamicPlan",
# Output removed to shorten report
"defaultHostName": "northpole-ssh-certs-fa.azurewebsites.net",
"enabled": true,
"enabledHostNames": [
"northpole-ssh-certs-fa.azurewebsites.net"
],
# Output removed to shorten report
"hostNames": [
"northpole-ssh-certs-fa.azurewebsites.net"
],
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"id": "/subscriptions/2b0942f3-9bca-484b-a508-abdae2db5e64/resourceGroups/northpole-rg1/pro
viders/Microsoft.Web/sites/northpole-ssh-certs-fa",
"identity": {
"principalId": "d3be48a8-0702-407c-89af-0319780a2aea",
"tenantId": "90a38eda-4006-4dd5-924c-6ca55cacc14d",
"type": "SystemAssigned",
"userAssignedIdentities": null
},
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"name": "northpole-ssh-certs-fa",
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"tags": {
"create-cert-func-url-path": "/api/create-cert?code=candy-cane-twirl",
"project": "northpole-ssh-certs"
},
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}
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| Find a way to list the only VM in one of the resource groups you have access to.
For more information: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/vm?view=azure-cli-latest
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elf@7467e82d184b:~$ az vm list -g northpole-rg2
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{
"id": "/subscriptions/2b0942f3-9bca-484b-a508-abdae2db5e64/resourceGroups/northpole-rg2/pro
viders/Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines/NP-VM1",
"location": "eastus",
"name": "NP-VM1",
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"name": "VM1_OsDisk_1"
}
},
"vmId": "e5f16214-18be-4a31-9ebb-2be3a55cfcf7"
},
"resourceGroup": "northpole-rg2",
"tags": {}
}
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| Find a way to invoke a run-command against the only Virtual Machine (VM) so you can RunShellScript and get a directory listing to reveal a file on the Azure VM.
For more information: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/vm/run-command?view=azure-cli-latest#az-vm-run-command-invoke
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elf@7467e82d184b:~$ az vm run-command invoke -g northpole-rg2 -n NP-VM1 --command-id RunShellScript --scripts "ls"
{
"value": [
{
"code": "ComponentStatus/StdOut/succeeded",
"displayStatus": "Provisioning succeeded",
"level": "Info",
"message": "bin\netc\nhome\njinglebells\nlib\nlib64\nusr\n",
"time": 1703876493
},
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]
}
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