Azure Account and Sign In

⚠️ Attention extension authors! The Azure Account extension is being deprecated in January 2025. If you own an Azure extension that relies on Azure Account, or are creating a new extension that needs authentication to Azure, please see the deprecation announcement for guidance.

The Azure Account extension provides a single Azure sign in and subscription filtering experience for all other Azure extensions. It makes Azure's Cloud Shell service available in VS Code's integrated terminal.

Signing In/Out

There are multiple commands accessible via the command palette that may be used to sign into Azure.

Sign out of Azure using the Azure: Sign Out command.

Azure Cloud Shell

Note: The Azure Cloud Shell feature has moved to the Azure Resources extension. Apart from moving codebases, the feature is the same from a users perspective. Authentication for the Cloud Shell feature is now handled by the VS Code built-in Microsoft authentication provider, which means you may have to login upon first use of the migrated feature.

Azure Cloud Shell instances can be started via the terminal view in VS Code. To begin, click the dropdown arrow in the terminal view and select from either Azure Cloud Shell (Bash) or Azure Cloud Shell (PowerShell).

If this is your first time using the Cloud Shell, the following notification will appear prompting you to set it up.

The Cloud Shell will load in the terminal view once you've finished configuring it.

You may also upload to the Cloud Shell using the Azure: Upload to Cloud Shell command.

Commands

Command
Azure: Sign In	Sign in to your Azure subscription.
Azure: Sign In with Device Code	Sign in to your Azure subscription with a device code. Use this in setups where the Sign In command does not work.
Azure: Sign In to Azure Cloud	Sign in to your Azure subscription in one of the sovereign clouds.
Azure: Sign Out	Sign out of your Azure subscription.
Azure: Select Subscriptions	Pick the set of subscriptions you want to work with. Extensions should respect this list and only show resources within the filtered subscriptions.
Azure: Create an Account	If you don't have an Azure Account, you can sign up for one today and receive $200 in free credits.
Azure: Upload to Cloud Shell1	Upload a file to your Cloud Shell storage account

¹ On Windows: Requires Node.js 6 or later to be installed (https://nodejs.org).

Settings

Name	Description	Default
azure.resourceFilter	The resource filter, each element is a tenant id and a subscription id separated by a slash.
azure.showSignedInEmail	Whether to show the email address (e.g., in the status bar) of the signed in account.	true
azure.tenant	A specific tenant to sign in to. The default is to sign in to the common tenant and use all known tenants.
azure.cloud	The current Azure Cloud to connect to.	Azure
azure.ppe	Development setting: The PPE environment for testing.

Contributing

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License

MIT

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