Using Windows Azure with Mac and Linux command line tools

In addition to the introduction of Windows Http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/13357.html ">azure Web sites and exciting new virtual machine features, We have recently released a series of open source command-line tools that allow you to manage and deploy these new services on any operating system using the command line, including the first support for Apple OS X and Linux.

In this article I will guide you through the installation and use of basic tools, and share information on how you can learn more and even benefit the tool (it is open source Node.js code, with Apache 2.0 licenses, hosted on github.com, plus my team accepts donations).

Getting Started Tutorial

To begin, you need to download and install a cross-platform command-line tool. Depending on your operating system, here are a few options.

You can find the downloaded tool on any "development" page in Windows Azure Web site, but typically the Node.js development page.

Install on your Mac

We have prepared a good Mac installer experience, so if you download the Mac installer, you simply follow the standard wizard installation

The ' Azure ' command will be available in the terminal application when the installer is finished. The command is located in Usr/local/bin/.

You can uninstall the tool at any time by typing ' azure-uninstall ' and follow the instructions.

Install using NPM (NPM is Node pack management)

Alternatively, if Node.js is already installed on your machine, you can quickly install the command-line tool.

We actually execute the tool in Node.js, which can be installed as part of our NPM module in Windows Azure. NPM is the recommended installation method (if you want to use a command-line interface on Linux or Windows)

NPM Install Azure–global

Command-line Syntax

Once you have installed the command line interface (CLI) for Windows Azure, you simply type ' Azure ' from the terminal application

If you type ' azure ' you will get a list of the advanced commands we can support, such as ' site ', ' vm ', ' accout ', and so on.

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