Microsoft Azure CLI Dev Tools (azdev)

The azdev tool is designed to aid new and experienced developers in contributing to Azure CLI command modules and extensions.

Getting Started Videos

1. Cloning Repos

2. Setup with azdev setup

3. Basics with azdev style/test/linter

4. Creating modules with azdev cli create

5. Create extensions with azdev extension create

6. Publishing extensions with azdev extension publish

Setting up your development environment

1. Install Python 3.6/3.7/3.8 from http://python.org. Please note that the version of Python that comes preinstalled on OSX is 2.7. Currently it's not recommended to use Python 3.9.

2. Fork and clone the repository or repositories you wish to develop for.

   • For Azure CLI: https://github.com/Azure/azure-cli
   • For Azure CLI Extensions: https://github.com/Azure/azure-cli-extensions
   • Any other repository that you might have access to that contains CLI extensions.

   After forking azure-cli, follow the below commands to set up:

   # Clone your forked repository
   git clone https://github.com/<your-github-name>/azure-cli.git
   
   cd azure-cli
   # Add the Azure/azure-cli repository as upstream
   git remote add upstream https://github.com/Azure/azure-cli.git
   git fetch upstream
   # Reset the default dev branch to track dev branch of Azure/azure-cli so you can use it to track the latest azure-cli code.
   git branch dev --set-upstream-to upstream/dev
   # Develop with a new branch
   git checkout -b <feature_branch>

   You can do the same for azure-cli-extensions except that the default branch for it is main, run git branch main --set-upstream-to upstream/main instead.

   See Authenticating with GitHub from Git about caching your GitHub credentials in Git which is needed when you push the code.

3. Create a new virtual environment for Python in the root of your clone. You can do this by running:

   Python 3.6+ (all platforms):

   python -m venv env

   or

   python3 -m venv env

4. Activate the env virtual environment by running:

   Windows CMD.exe:

   env\Scripts\activate.bat

   Windows Powershell:

   env\Scripts\activate.ps1
   

   OSX/Linux (bash):

   source env/bin/activate

5. Prepare and install azdev

   If you're on Linux, install the dependency packages first by running:

   For apt packages:

   sudo apt install gcc python3-dev

   For rpm packages:

   sudo yum install gcc python3-devel 

   Otherwise you will have psutil installation issues (#269) when you setup azure-cli later.

   Upgrade pip on all platforms:

   python -m pip install -U pip
   

   Install azdev:

   pip install azdev
   

6. Complete setup by running:

   azdev setup
   

   This will launch the interactive setup process. You can also run with non-interactive options:

   azdev setup --cli /path/to/azure-cli --repo /path/to/azure-cli-extensions
   

   To see more non-interactive options, run azdev setup --help.

Authoring commands and tests

If you are building commands based on a REST API SPEC from azure-rest-api-specs, you can leverage autorest.az to generate the commands. Otherwise you can run the following commands to create a code template:

azdev extension create <extension-name>

or

azdev cli create <module-name>

If you are working on an extension, before you can run its command, you need to install the extension from the source code by running:

azdev extension add <extension-name>

Run az <command> --help with your command groups or commands for a quick check on the command interface and help messages.

For instructions on manually writing the commands and tests, see more in

• Authoring Command Modules
• Authoring Extensions
• Authoring Tests

Style, linter check and testing

1. Check code style (Pylint and PEP8):

   azdev style <extension-name/module-name>
   

2. Run static code checks of the CLI command table:

   azdev linter <extension-name/module-name>
   

3. Record or replay CLI tests:

   azdev test <extension-name/module-name>
   

   By default, test is running in once mode. If there are no corresponding recording files (in yaml format), it will run live tests and generate recording files. If recording files are found, the tests will be run in playback mode against the recording files. You can use --live to force a test run in live mode and regenerate the recording files.

Submitting a pull request to merge the code

1. After committing your code locally, push it to your forked repository:

   git push --set-upstream origin <feature_branch>
   

2. Submit a PR to merge from the feature_branch of your repository into the default branch of Azure/azure-cli or Azure/azure-cli-extensions repositories. See Submitting Pull Requests and Publish Extensions for more details.

Reporting issues and feedback

If you encounter any bugs with the tool please file an issue in the Issues section of our GitHub repo.

Contribute Code

This project has adopted the Microsoft Open Source Code of Conduct.

For more information see the Code of Conduct FAQ or contact opencode@microsoft.com with any additional questions or comments.

If you would like to become an active contributor to this project please follow the instructions provided in Microsoft Azure Projects Contribution Guidelines.

License

Azure CLI Dev Tools (azdev)

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