Azure Application Gateway — Operate with Azure CLI

2 min readApr 8, 2021

Introduction

What is Azure CLI?

It is a tool that can operate Azure that can be used cross-platform such as Windows, MacOS, Linux from the command line. We can download from the following page:

Install the Azure CLI

The Azure CLI is available to install in Windows, macOS and Linux environments. It can also be run in a Docker…

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After installation we can login to azure:

Azure login process:

Type az login , when you log in, information such as your subscription ID will be displayed.

⚠️ If in your environment with a proxy server, please set the proxy in the environment variable if necessary.

set HTTP_PROXY = http://username:password@proxy.example.com:9000
set HTTPS_PROXY = http://username:password@proxy.example.com:9000

Application Gateway v2

Application Gateway v2 allows for automatic scale-out, which allows you to scale out with the Azure CLI if the setting is set to manual scale-out.

Check the current number of instances

az network application-gateway show -g westeu-test-rg -n appgwv2test --query "sku"

Manually scale out Application Gateway v2 to two instances. Specify the number of…