[AzureCLIV2] Replaces az --version with az version

[jessehouwing]

az version doesn't perform an update check and is faster.

Fixes: #19006

Task name: AzureCLI

Description: Replaces the call to az --version with az version.

Documentation changes required: N

Added unit tests: N

Attached related issue: #19006

Checklist:

• Task version was bumped - please check instruction how to do it
• Checked that applied changes work as expected

[v-mohithgc]

Hi @jessehouwing , thanks for creating this PR, will take a look.

[mindingdata]

Can I ask where this one is at currently? I can see the simple version check is incredibly slow, for example :

2024-04-19T00:13:37.4098274Z [command]C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe /D /S /C ""C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Azure\CLI2\wbin\az.cmd" --version"
2024-04-19T00:14:13.2414888Z azure-cli                         2.59.0

Even if we were able to opt out of running the version check every single time, that would be incredibly helpful.

[jessehouwing]

Be sure to check out https://jessehouwing.net/recommendations-for-using-azure-cli-in-your-workflow/

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On Fri, Apr 19, 2024, 02:26 Wade Gausden ***@***.***> wrote: Can I ask where this one is at currently? I can see the simple version check is incredibly slow, for example : 2024-04-19T00:13:37.4098274Z [command]C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe /D /S /C ""C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Azure\CLI2\wbin\az.cmd" --version" 2024-04-19T00:14:13.2414888Z azure-cli 2.59.0 Even if we were able to opt out of running the version check every single time, that would be incredibly helpful. — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#19039 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AA724S7FKOTLJ2V3MG3VWTTY6BQCFAVCNFSM6AAAAAA5LATBUGVHI2DSMVQWIX3LMV43OSLTON2WKQ3PNVWWK3TUHMZDANRVGUZTCMZSGA> . You are receiving this because you were mentioned.Message ID: ***@***.***>

[mindingdata]

Be sure to check out https://jessehouwing.net/recommendations-for-using-azure-cli-in-your-workflow/

I did :) how do you think I found this!

Unfortunately most of the other tips aren’t as applicable to my use case. Whereas because we use the az cli across a number of different (small) jobs, this particular issue kills us.

[jessehouwing]

If you were able to set the useGlobalConfig: true that is the most likely thing to give you an enormous boost.

- task: AzureCLI@2
  inputs:
    useGlobalConfig: true

[margani]

Can we merge this PR?

[mindingdata]

@rvairavelu @manolerazvan @v-mohithgc You are marked as approvers on this and it's been a year.

When a pipeline is made up of many smaller Powershell tasks, this absolutely kills a pipeline. Adding 30 seconds to each step. This really needs to be merged.

[Deekshitha981]

Hi
We have tested this, but replacing with az version is throwing regression for pipelines using lower version of az cli. so we are trying to introduce a flag to overcome this issue. will provide the update asap.

[EshitaD]

Hi @jessehouwing, we have made the necessary code changes. Please find the PR below. I’ll let you know once the deployments are complete.
PR: #20986