Azure CLI
Shares rank 59 of 86 privilege escalation tools by recommenders
Recommended as a strong way to work with Azure, including scripting setup tasks rather than using the web portal. Critics find even the CLI clunky.
Recommended as a strong way to work with Azure, including scripting setup tasks rather than using the web portal. Critics find even the CLI clunky.
7 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 6
- criticize it
- 1
- approval share
- 86%
Recommended in 5 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 6 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 6 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 5 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Strong way to work with Azure
“standard stateful cli tooling like the azure cli are fundamentally better.”
Comment from 10 Apr 2026 in “I Still Prefer MCP over Skills” “Azure CLI is really the best part working with the service.”
Comment from 29 Jan 2026 in “Microsoft's Azure Linux”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Clunky even as a CLI
“I like working with the cli instead of the portal. But even the cli is clunky.”
Comment from 29 Jan 2026 in “Microsoft's Azure Linux”
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The four most recommended other privilege escalation tools, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
See all 86 privilege escalation tools, rankedWhat people said
6 of the 8 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“Hope you enjoy having 2 GB of python interpreters around”
“standard stateful cli tooling like the azure cli are fundamentally better.”
“Azure CLI is really the best part working with the service.”
“I like working with the cli instead of the portal. But even the cli is clunky.”
“which used significantly less context and was more targeted”
“the seven step OIDC configuration process is the kind of thing that can be scripted quite easily in Azure”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.