Use Microsoft Copilot in Azure to learn how to use the Azure CLI

Microsoft Copilot in Azure is an AI-powered tool that can help you do more with Azure. It unifies knowledge and data across hundreds of Azure services to increase productivity, reduce costs, and provide deep insights. Copilot in Azure helps you learn about Azure by answering questions, and it provides information tailored to your own Azure resources and environment. By letting you express your goals in natural language, Copilot simplifies your Azure management experience. This benefits Azure CLI users because the knowledge of Azure CLI is built into Copilot.

Here are some benefits of using Copilot in Azure:

• Design: Create and configure the services needed and align them with organizational policies.
• Operate: Answer questions, author complex commands, and manage resources.
• Troubleshoot: Orchestrate across Azure services for insights to summarize issues, identify causes, and suggest solutions.
• Optimize: Receive recommendations to improve costs, scalability, and reliability.

By default, Copilot in Azure is available to all users in an organization. Check with your administrator if you have questions about access.

Open Microsoft Copilot in Azure

To use Copilot in Azure, go to the Azure portal and select the Copilot icon in the page header. A new pane opens with a chat assistant where you can ask questions.

When you tell Copilot in Azure about a task you want to perform with Azure CLI, it provides a script with the necessary commands.

Search for reference commands

Ask Copilot in Azure to help you with a specific Azure CLI command. For example, you can ask how to create a virtual machine in Azure.

You can copy the script and use it. Replace the variables with actual values or define them in a variable block before running the command.

Look up an Azure CLI script

Suppose you encounter an Azure CLI script that includes references and parameters that are new to you. Use Copilot in Azure to look up the reference command by entering the command as if you were in a terminal:

Search for a task or job to be done

You can use Azure CLI with Copilot in Azure to help create an Azure SQL database.

Follow the steps provided:

1. Create an Azure SQL server:

   # Variable block
   serverName="myServerName"
   resourceGroup="myResourceGroup"
   locationName="eastus2"
   adminUser="myAdminUser"
   adminPassword="myPassword"
   
   az sql server create --name $serverName --resource-group $resourceGroup --location $location --admin-user $adminUser --admin-password $adminPassword
   

2. Create your Azure SQL database:

   # Variable block
   resourceroup= "myResourceGroup"
   serverName="myServerName"
   databaseName="myDatabaseName"
   serviceObjective="basic"
   
   az sql db create --resource-group $resourceGroup --server $serverName --name $databaseName --service-objective $serviceObjective
   

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See also

• Microsoft Copilot in Azure overview
• Generate Azure CLI scripts using Microsoft Copilot in Azure