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		colemickens on Sept 27, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Announcing Azure Command-Line Interface 2.0 Previe... One feature I'm loving in the new Azure CLI is a new command (`az ad sp create-for-rbac`) that will create a new Service Principal and grant it a RBAC Role assignment in a single shot. It should make the first step of setting up CI/CD scenarios a bit easier.

rcarmo on Sept 28, 2016 | [–]

Wow. I've been using it for a few weeks and never spotted that (been focusing on infra). Thanks for the heads up.

jmspring on Sept 27, 2016 | [–]

Glad to see this. Setting up service principals with the Node-based CLI was a multi (4-5) step process.

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