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Hexa – The ultimate companion for the Azure CLI. Setup and deploy in seconds.

What is Hexa?

Hexa is a open source command line tool to easily setup and deploy your applications to Microsoft Azure. It takes full advantage of the Azure CLI, the Azure Function Core Tools CLI and the NPM CLI.

Hexa allows to seamlessly configure, setup and deploy to different Azure services such as Resource Groups, Storage accounts, Hosting, Azure Functions and Databases (CosmosDB and Table Storage).

Hexa is driven by community contributions. Please send us your Pull Requests and feedback!

Get started

Required tools

In order to use Hexa, you will need to install both the Azure CLI and Functions Core Tools:

• Follow the official guide to install the Azure CLI.
• Follow the official guide to install the Azure Functions Core Tools.

Once these tools are installed and available on your system, you are ready to install and use the Hexa CLI.

Installing the Hexa CLI

You can install the Hexa CLI using npm or yarn:

$ npm install --global @manekinekko/hexa

To make sure the Hexa CLI has been correctly, you can execute the hexa command from anywhere in your system and you should see the default usage output:

Usage: hexa <command>

Options:
  -V, --version          output the version number
  login                  connect to your Azure
  init                   initialize a new workspace
  deploy                 deploy to Azure
  -f, --force            override all confirmations (default: false)
  -r, --relogin          force login (default: false)
  -c, --create           enable resource creation (default: true)
  -m, --manual           enable Manual mode (default: false)
  -d, --debug            enable debug mode (default: false)
  -s, --sas              use SAS token (only: storage and database) (default: false)
  -t, --token            generate a Storage token into a .env file (default: false)
  -j, --just <services>  setup or deploy only the selected services (e.g. --just functions,hosting) (default: false)
  --yolo                 enable all modes and all services (default: false)
  -h, --help             output usage information

Usage

In order to use the Hexa CLI to configure and setup your Azure services, run the hexa init command inside one of your project that you want to setup for Azure. The Hexa CLI will guide you through the setup process.

For example, if you want to setup your project Foothat lives inside the ./foo folder, here are the steps:

1. $ cd foo
2. $ hexa init

Once your project is setup and configured, you will see a newly created file called hexa.json. This file contains the configuration for your project Foo.

Whenever your project Foo is ready to be deployed to Azure, you can use the hexa deploy inside the ./foo folder and let Hexa takes care of the deploy process.

Examples

• $ hexa init --just=hosting,functions: Hexa will setup and configure just the requested services. Current supported services are hosting, functions and database. Please note that a Resource Group and a Storage Accout will automatically be setup as these are required by the other services.

• $ hexa init --token: Hexa will also create a .env file which contains the Connectio String token for your storage account. Hexa does not use this token! It is meant for you to use.

• $ hexa init --token --sas: Hexa will generate a SAS token for your storage account (instead of a Connection String).

• $ hexa init --manual: Hexa will enter a Manual Mode and will ask you to make a choice for each step.

• $ hexa init --manual --create: In manual mode, by default, Hexa would only let you choose an resource from your existing ones. The --create flag allows you to manually create a new resource/service at your convenience.

• $ hexa init --yolo: Hexa will enter an Auto Mode and will setup all supported services (except if you use the --just flag) without asking you any question.

Enjoy!

Want to help?

Want to file a bug, contribute some code, or improve the documentation? Excellent! Read up on our guidelines for contributing and then check out one of our issues in the hotlist: community-help.