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Wouldn't this work for configuring lots of open ports: https://msdn.microsoft.com/library/azure/dn495300.aspx?

Never used the cmdlets for Azure and it's been a while that I dealt with it, but that sounds like an issue you'd only do via the web interface if you're insane.

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Wouldn't work for me, as the {Get,Add}-Azure* scripts are windows/powershell-only. But then again, existence of CLI tools means there's an API. So, with a bit of luck, we might one day see a portable CLI tool (maybe boto3 [1] ported to azure API... one can dream! :-)

Thanks for pointing those out!

[1] https://github.com/boto/boto3

Try their xplat cli [1], it's built on node/npm. I'm on Windows but still prefer this one over the PowerShell one.

[1] https://www.npmjs.com/package/azure-cli

There is a cross-platform CLI (based on Node.js), which runs on OS X and Linux as well as Windows - I don't specifically know if it has commands for opening ports though. There's information and links at https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/xpl... if you want to check it out.

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