Use Azure CLI within Azure Powershell Task

Question

I want to create a Powershell script which executes some AzureRm... commands and follows those up with some Az commands. Reason being that some commands are only available via Az.

When trying to execute these scripts in a release pipeline, the script always fails with the following error:

ERROR: Please run 'az login' to setup account.

Executing the Az commands in a Azure CLI task work as expected, because Az Login is executed by the task.

I don't want to pass the secret required to login to the script if at all possible. I would rather fall back to separating the scripts into two steps in the pipeline.

Is it possible to use the Azcommands within a Azure Powershell task without passing the secrets manually?

Minimal example:

• Create a new release pipeline
• Add a task Azure PowerShell
• Use inline script
• As script, execute az account show

Answer 1

The short term solution I already had in place was passing the ServicePrincipal information into the powershell script and executing az login manually (same as Bevan's answer below).

My long term solution was to replace all Azure CLI calls with "Az Powershell" commands. Luckily, most commands are available by now.

A couple of commands don't have an equivalent commandlet. But if they are available via ARM, you can figure out an alternative command with Powershell.

Many of them involve using New-AzResource/New-AzureRmResource or Invoke-AzResourceAction/Invoke-AzureRmResourceAction

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# AzureCLI
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# Powershell:
$keys = Invoke-AzResourceAction -Action listKeys `
    -ResourceType "Microsoft.DocumentDb/databaseAccounts" -ApiVersion "2015-04-08" `
    -ResourceGroupName $resourceGroupName -Name $accountName