Introduction to Azure

# Azure CLI — must-know commands

# Login
az login

# Create a resource group (logical container for Azure resources)
az group create --name myapp-rg --location eastus

# Create a VM
az vm create \
  --resource-group myapp-rg \
  --name myapp-vm \
  --image Ubuntu2204 \
  --admin-username azureuser \
  --generate-ssh-keys

# Deploy a container to Azure Container Instances (quick, no K8s needed)
az container create \
  --resource-group myapp-rg \
  --name myapp-container \
  --image myapp:latest \
  --cpu 1 \
  --memory 1.5 \
  --ports 8000

# Create an Azure Function (serverless)
az functionapp create \
  --resource-group myapp-rg \
  --consumption-plan-location eastus \
  --runtime python \
  --functions-version 4 \
  --name myapp-functions \
  --storage-account mystorageaccount

# pip install azure-storage-blob
from azure.storage.blob import BlobServiceClient

connection_string = 'DefaultEndpointsProtocol=https;AccountName=...'
client = BlobServiceClient.from_connection_string(connection_string)

# Upload file to blob storage
container = client.get_container_client('documents')
with open('report.pdf', 'rb') as data:
    container.upload_blob('reports/2025/report.pdf', data, overwrite=True)

# Download
blob = container.get_blob_client('reports/2025/report.pdf')
with open('local-report.pdf', 'wb') as f:
    f.write(blob.download_blob().readall())

# List blobs
for blob in container.list_blobs(name_starts_with='reports/2025/'):
    print(blob.name, blob.size)