How could I list Azure Virtual Machines using Python?

I’ve used the below code to get the Access Token from my Azure account.

https://github.com/AzureAD/azure-activedirectory-library-for-python/blob/dev/sample/certificate_credentials_sample.py

It’s working fine, I already got the token.

However, how can I use this token to list all VMs running in that subscription/resource group with Azure SDK for Python?

I guess that Microsoft documentation is a bit confusing.

Thanks.

Answer

You can use the function list_all()/list() to get all the VMs in the subscription/resource group, but these responses don’t show the VM running status to you. So you also need the function instance_view() to get the VM running status.

Finally, the example code to list all VMs running in that subscription/resource group below:

from azure.mgmt.compute import ComputeManagementClient
from azure.common.credentials import ServicePrincipalCredentials


Subscription_Id = "xxxxx"
Tenant_Id = "xxxxx"
Client_Id = "xxxxx"
Secret = "xxxxx"

credential = ServicePrincipalCredentials(
        client_id=Client_Id,
        secret=Secret,
        tenant=Tenant_Id
        )

compute_client = ComputeManagementClient(credential, Subscription_Id)

vm_list = compute_client.virtual_machines.list_all()
# vm_list = compute_client.virtual_machines.list('resource_group_name')
i= 0
for vm in vm_list:
    array = vm.id.split("/")
    resource_group = array[4]
    vm_name = array[-1]
    statuses = compute_client.virtual_machines.instance_view(resource_group, vm_name).statuses
    status = len(statuses) >= 2 and statuses[1]

    if status and status.code == 'PowerState/running':
        print(vm_name)