Configure Azure CLI automatic upgrades

As part of the Azure CLI series, today we are going to see how we can configure automatic upgrades.

Prerequisites

• Azure CLI

Manual upgrade

Open Terminal and run the following command:

az upgrade

Automatic upgrade

Step 1. auto-upgrade is disabled by default. Let’s enable it.

az config set auto-upgrade.enable=yes

Step 2. Confirm upgrade settings.

az config get | jq '."auto-upgrade"'

Output:

[
  {
    "name": "enable",
    "source": "/Users/devcoops/.azure/config",
    "value": "yes"
  }
]

Step 3. Optionally, if you want to disable the upgrade prompt, run the following command:

az config set auto-upgrade.prompt=no

Step 4. Optionally, if you want to disable auto-upgrade again.

az config set auto-upgrade.enable=no

Step 5. Confirm the upgrade settings again, by running the command described in Step 2.
Output:

[
  {
    "name": "enable",
    "source": "/Users/devcoops/.azure/config",
    "value": "no"
  }
]

Conclusion

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