Azure CLI

The Azure Command Line Interface enables access to Azure services including AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service) clusters.

Official documentation: learn.microsoft.com/cli/azure

Prerequisites

• Package Managers - Homebrew, Chocolatey, or APT
• p6m CLI - Required for p6m sso commands

Installation

Windows

# Using winget
winget install Microsoft.AzureCLI
winget install Microsoft.Azure.Kubelogin

# Using Chocolatey
choco install azure-cli
choco install kubelogin

macOS

# Using Homebrew
brew install azure-cli
brew install Azure/kubelogin/kubelogin

Linux

# Ubuntu/Debian
curl -sL https://aka.ms/InstallAzureCLIDeb | sudo bash

# Install kubelogin
az aks install-cli

Or see Azure CLI for Linux.

kubelogin Required

kubelogin is required for Azure AD authentication to AKS clusters. See Azure kubelogin documentation for more details.

Verify Installation

az --version
kubelogin --version

SSO Configuration

The p6m CLI automatically configures Azure credentials:

# Configure Azure (updates credentials and ~/.kube/config for AKS)
p6m sso azure

# Or configure all cloud platforms at once
p6m sso

Manual Azure Login

After initial configuration, authenticate when your session expires:

az login

AKS Cluster Access

After authentication, add AKS clusters to your kubeconfig:

az aks get-credentials --resource-group <rg-name> --name <cluster-name>

The p6m CLI can also configure this automatically via p6m sso azure.

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Related

• Azure CLI Documentation - Complete reference
• kubelogin Documentation - Azure AD authentication for Kubernetes
• p6m CLI - Platform CLI with SSO automation
• Kubernetes Configuration - Cluster access setup