NAME¶

azuremetadata - Query Microsoft Azure metadata server

SYNOPSIS¶

azuremetadata [option]

DESCRIPTION¶

azuremetadata is used to query Microsoft Azure metadata server. The available data is documented at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/windows/instance-metadata-service . The tool allows to filter specific metadata fields via command line options, which are generated dynamically based on the data available for each API version.

STATIC OPTIONS¶

-a --api [VERSION]

Specify metadata API version to be queried. By default the oldest available version is used (2017-03-01).

-h, --help

Print all available command line options to standard out.

-x, --xml

Output the result as XML.

-j, --json

Output the result as JSON.

-o , --output [OUTPUT]

Output file path. If not set, the output is printed to STDOUT.

--device [DEVICE]

Path to the device to read disk tag from. If not set, disk tag will be read from the root device.

DYNAMIC OPTIONS¶

Dynamic command line options are listed in --help output. An API version can be specified, the produced dynamic options list will be specific to that API version.

EXAMPLES¶

Set the API version

azuremetadata --api 2019-08-15

Get instance name

azuremetadata --compute --name

Get public IP of a second network interface

azuremetadata --network --interface=1 --ipv4 --ipAddress --publicIpAddress

AUTHOR¶

Ivan Kapelyukhin (ikapelyukhin@suse.com)