What should I use in place of Select-AzureSubscription?

Question

I am trying to remove deprecated cmdlets in a powershell script and one of the cmdlets is Select-AzureSubscription. I tried replacing it with Select-AzureRmSubscription but that requires user interaction to authenticate. Does anyone know what Azure-Rm cmdlet I should be using instead?

Answer 1

Select-AzureRmSubscription does change the approach that Azure uses for authentication. I had the same pain points when I converted my scripts.

The official way of approaching this via scripting is as follows -

$profile = Login-AzureRmAccount 

Save-AzureRMProfile  -Profile $profile -path $path

You can then use Select-AzureRmSubscription to none-interactively load those saved profiles.

Although ultimately I didn't go this route, I decided to add another layer of security and use a machine based certificate to encrypt / decrypt credentials to pass to Login-AzureRmAccount This way I could manage multiple sets of accounts and never have to be concerned about those tokens being exposed on vulnerable machines.