A third option to operate Azure Stack is the Command Line Interface (CLI), which is available for:

• Windows
• Linux
• Mac

Now, let's have a look at how to create a virtual machine using the CLI. At first, we would need to register the corresponding environment:

• As administrative environment, you would need to run the following script:

az cloud register 
  -n AzureStackAdmin 
  --endpoint-resource-manager  
  "https://adminmanagement.local.azurestack.external" 
  --suffix-storage-endpoint "local.azurestack.external" 
  --suffix-keyvault-dns ".adminvault.local.azurestack.external" 
  --endpoint-vm-image-alias-doc <URI of the document which 
  contains virtual machine image aliases>
az cloud set 
  -n AzureStackAdmin

• As user environment, the following script could help:

az cloud register 
 -n AzureStackUser 
 --endpoint-resource-manager 
 "https://management.local.azurestack.external" 
 --suffix-storage-endpoint "local.azurestack.external" 
 --suffix-keyvault-dns ".vault.local.azurestack.external" 
 --endpoint-vm-image-alias-doc <URI of the document which 
 contains virtual machine image aliases>
az cloud set 
 -n AzureStackUser

• Now, let's log on to the Azure Stack environment with the following command:

az login 
  -u <Active directory global administrator or user account. For example: username@<aadtenant>.onmicrosoft.com> 
  --tenant <Azure Active Directory Tenant name. For example: myazurestack.onmicrosoft.com>

• And finally, let's create a virtual machine:

az group create --name myResourceGroup --location local
az vm create 
  --resource-group "myResourceGroup" 
  --name "myVM" 
  --image "Win2016Datacenter" 
  --admin-username "Demouser" 
  --admin-password "Demouser@123" 
  --use-unmanaged-disk 
  --location local