az-account-switcher 1.5.0

Utility to switch Azure subscriptions

Switch Azure subscriptions

[!WARNING] The new version of the Azure-CLI, since 2.61.0, has build-in support for switching subscriptions, so this package is no longer needed. You can use the command az login to switch subscriptions directly. See: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/authenticate-azure-cli-interactively?view=azure-cli-latest#subscription-selector.

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Problem: Switching subscriptions using the Azure CLI involves too much typing.

# Type a lot...
az account list --output table

# Use mouse to select the subscription-id in the console
# Use ctrl-c to copy the text, this might be optional

# Type a lot...
az account set --subscription-id <paste subscription-id>

Solution: I simplified this task with the command-line utility az-switch! The active subscription is bold and green and selected as default argument. Just select the subscription you want to activate.

Install

pip install az-account-switcher

Usage

Usage: az-switch [OPTIONS]

  Show all Azure Subscriptions in current profile using the `az` command-
  line utility. Ask user input for switching to another subscription.

Options:
  -n INTEGER     Switch to this subscription number directly.
  -v, --verbose  Verbose: echo the azure-cli commands.
  -h, --help     Show this message and exit.

Example

CHANGELOG

v1.5.0 (05-05-2025):

• Display tenant name in the subscription list.
• Show warning when AzureCLI 2.61.0 or newer is detected, no need for this package anymore.
• Drop support for Python 3.8 and 3.9 since Click 8.2.0 requires Python 3.10+.

v1.4.0 (28-12-2023):

• Removed az.cli with azure-cli dependencies in favor subprocess call to have a small installation. Assuming az in on your PATH.
• Drop Python 3.7 support, due to minimal version supported by (dev) dependency commitizen.
• Switch to poetry for dependency management.

v1.3.0 (25-02-2022):

• Fixed: issue-8 NotImplementedError by removing deprecated get_azure_cli_credentials in PR-6.
• Speed-up switching by removing the online interaction pulling the Subscriptions through the Azure-CLI. PR-7
• Add --verbose flag as an alias to the -v flag.

v1.2.0 (31-05-2021):

• Support Windows by changing interaction with Azure-CLI using Python package 'az.cli' instead of POpen
• Drop Python 3.6 support, due to dependent package 'az.cli'
• Unit tests running on latest versions of Unix, Windows and MacOs
• Depend on azure-cli instead of azure-cli-core to auto include packagingto fix issue-3

v1.1.0 (04-05-2021):

• Don't switch when same subscription is selected.
• Add -v verbose flag to print Azure-CLI sub-commands.
• Add -h as alias for --help

Thanks to @tqorange for contributing.

v1.0.0 (08-04-2021):

• Include Python 3.6, not only greater than.
• Add DeepSource code checker and resolve found issue (related to shell=true)
• Add aliases for command-line next to az-switch: + az-account-switch + az-account-switcher (the package name)
• Dump to v1.0.0, since it's working fine for a while and looks better!

v0.0.6 (25-03-2021):

Add support for disabled subscriptions.