Azure CLI Ignite 2022 Announcements Blog

Hello Everyone, 

Azure CLI is excited to have several big announcements for Ignite this week. 

• Added x number of new extensions and services.
• Az Scenario Guide
• WAM Authentication Flow
• Breaking Changes

New Service Support

We are happy to announce Azure CLI support for 3 new services and updates to many existing ones. As new Azure Services are announced this Ignite and part of our goal is to make sure you can manage the Azure Resources you have with the tools you want to use. These new extensions include:

• Azure Arc Appliance
• NGINX
• Elastic-SAN

WAM Authentication Support

With the release of version 2.41.0, Azure CLI has a preview feature for WAM (Web Authentication Manager) support as the login flow for Azure CLI. This new flow will open a local window rather than the browser window in the default authentication flow and will utilize the token broker to manage tokens for Azure CLI rather than the typical token location and also allow other WAM enabled apps to use the same token. Azure CLI will continue to build on this new capability and introduce new authentication capabilities over the coming months. This feature is in preview and you must set the allow_broker configuration to true before using the WAM login flow. For more information about setting configurations, see this doc.  

az scenario guide

The Azure CLI team is excited to announce a new feature aimed at helping users find, and walk through commands to meet their end to end scenario goals. Az CLI uses machine learning and fuzzy matching to help users find common scenarios that match their needs. For example, you could use az scenario guide to search for something like "Deploy a Web App" and the CLI will not only return a list of scenarios that might match your needs, but initiate a walk through of Azure CLI commands to accomplish your chosen scenario!

az scenario guide will be released shortly and we look forward to hearing your feedback about this experience!

Breaking Changes

Azure CLI 2.41.0 is a breaking change release. As of Microsoft Build 2022, Azure CLI changed to a twice a year breaking change release cycle that aligns with Microsoft Build and Ignite. This was to provide a more stable and reliable experience to users as they keep up with the latest versions of Azure CLI. Azure CLI's guidance on upgrading is to always keep up with the latest versions only the current version is supported by CLI and has the latest security updates and any bug fixes.

To read more about the breaking changes in this version, you can visit our Upcoming Breaking Changes doc and ensure your environment is ready to install the newest version of Azure CLI!

These are some brief highlights but there are a lot of great, exciting new features in this release. To learn more about all the updates in version 2.41.0, check out our release notes for a full list. 

Thank you!

Thank you all for using Azure CLI and we look forward the continue improving Azure command line tools experience. 

We hope you enjoy Ignite and all the great work being released this week. We'd love to hear your feedback so feel free to reach out any time. 

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