Packaging

Packaging

This document describes how Azure CLI packages are built and where the built packages are delivered.

The official installation guide is at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/install-azure-cli

For Linux, we use https://packages.microsoft.com/ (PMC) to deliver DEB and RPM packages. Azure CLI packages are delivered from multiple repos. The term "repo" here is not GitHub repo, but Linux repo.

MSI for Windows

• The build job is BuildWindowsMSI defined in azure-pipelines.yml, which calls
• The build script build_scripts/windows/scripts/build.cmd
• We use an Azure storage account https://azcliprod.blob.core.windows.net/ to deliver MSI packages, such as https://azcliprod.blob.core.windows.net/msi/azure-cli-2.37.0.msi

DEB for Debian, Ubuntu

• The build job is BuildDebPackages defined in azure-pipelines.yml, which calls
• The build script scripts/release/debian/pipeline.sh
• Repo: https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/azure-cli/

RPM for RHEL, CentOS

• The build jobs are BuildRpmPackageCentOS7 and BuildRpmPackageUbi8 defined in azure-pipelines.yml, which call
• The build script scripts/release/rpm/pipeline.sh
• RHEL 7/CentOS 7 repo: https://packages.microsoft.com/yumrepos/azure-cli
• RHEL 8/CentOS Stream 8 repo: https://packages.microsoft.com/rhel/8/prod

RPM for Mariner

• The build job is BuildRpmPackageMariner defined in azure-pipelines.yml, which calls
• The build script scripts/release/rpm/pipeline_mariner.sh
• Mariner 1.0 repo: https://packages.microsoft.com/cbl-mariner/1.0/prod/Microsoft/x86_64/rpms/
• Mariner 2.0 repo: https://packages.microsoft.com/cbl-mariner/2.0/prod/Microsoft/x86_64/

Also see https://eng.ms/docs/products/mariner-linux/onboarding/packaging/publishing

Wheel for PyPI

Azure CLI is built as wheels and released on PyPI. However, since PyPI doesn't support GPG signature, some companies or organizations don't treat PyPI as a trusted installation source. The proposal to add PyPI installation document is tracked at https://github.com/Azure/azure-cli/issues/20476.

• The build job is BuildPythonWheel defined in azure-pipelines.yml, which calls
• The build script scripts/release/pypi/build.sh
• azure-cli package: https://pypi.org/project/azure-cli/
• azure-cli-core package: https://pypi.org/project/azure-cli-core/
• azure-cli-telemetry package: https://pypi.org/project/azure-cli-telemetry/