Creating a new Container with Azure-Cli

Question

I installed azure-cli with Homebrew brew update && brew install azure-cli

None of the azure commands have been successful. No matter the command I get the the following error.

az storage container create --name testContainer
No module named 'pkg_resources'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/azure-cli/2.0.45/libexec/lib/python3.7/site-packages/knack/cli.py", line 197, in invoke
    cmd_result = self.invocation.execute(args)
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/azure-cli/2.0.45/libexec/lib/python3.7/site-packages/azure/cli/core/commands/__init__.py", line 262, in execute
    self.commands_loader.load_arguments(command)
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/azure-cli/2.0.45/libexec/lib/python3.7/site-packages/azure/cli/core/__init__.py", line 253, in load_arguments
    self.command_table[command].load_arguments()  # this loads the arguments via reflection
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/azure-cli/2.0.45/libexec/lib/python3.7/site-packages/azure/cli/core/commands/__init__.py", line 141, in load_arguments
    super(AzCliCommand, self).load_arguments()
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/azure-cli/2.0.45/libexec/lib/python3.7/site-packages/knack/commands.py", line 76, in load_arguments
    cmd_args = self.arguments_loader()
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/azure-cli/2.0.45/libexec/lib/python3.7/site-packages/azure/cli/core/__init__.py", line 440, in default_arguments_loader
    op = handler or self.get_op_handler(operation)
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/azure-cli/2.0.45/libexec/lib/python3.7/site-packages/azure/cli/core/__init__.py", line 485, in get_op_handler
    op = import_module(mod_to_import)
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/python/3.7.0/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/importlib/__init__.py", line 127, in import_module
    return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1006, in _gcd_import
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 983, in _find_and_load
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 953, in _find_and_load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 219, in _call_with_frames_removed
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1006, in _gcd_import
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 983, in _find_and_load
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 953, in _find_and_load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 219, in _call_with_frames_removed
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1006, in _gcd_import
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 983, in _find_and_load
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 953, in _find_and_load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 219, in _call_with_frames_removed
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1006, in _gcd_import
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 983, in _find_and_load
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 953, in _find_and_load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 219, in _call_with_frames_removed
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1006, in _gcd_import
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 983, in _find_and_load
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 967, in _find_and_load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 677, in _load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 728, in exec_module
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 219, in _call_with_frames_removed
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/azure-cli/2.0.45/libexec/lib/python3.7/site-packages/azure/multiapi/__init__.py", line 1, in <module>
    __import__('pkg_resources').declare_namespace(__name__)
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pkg_resources'

I've attempted to do pip install setuptools which gives me:

Requirement already satisfied: setuptools in ./Library/Python/2.7/lib/python/site-packages (40.4.1)

Is azure trying to use a different version of python that's missing setup tools? Am I using the wrong version of python?

I don't really know where to go from here.

python --version says i'm using Python 3.7.0

You should create an issue here and CLI team will help you to figure out what is happening: https://github.com/Azure/azure-cli/issues. Also, you don't confirm how you installed the CLI is the first place. Pip? Howebrew? Something else? Please update your post with installation details. — Laurent Mazuel, Sep 19 '18 at 15:41
A similar error - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7446187/no-module-named-pkg-resources — Shiva, Sep 19 '18 at 16:19
Your message show the CLI is in 3.7, and you pip try is in 2.7 (look at the path). Try "python -m pip install setuptools" — Laurent Mazuel, Sep 19 '18 at 22:48
What the steps do you follow? This [link](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/install-azure-cli?view=azure-cli-latest)? — Charles Xu, Sep 20 '18 at 01:13
I ended up running a Brew Uninstall of Azure-Cli and then doing a pip install of the same package and it worked ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ — Reed, Sep 21 '18 at 00:11

Charles Xu · Accepted Answer · 2018-11-01T01:03:48.250

As you say none of the azure commands have been successful. So I suggest you reinstall the Azure CLI, you can follow Install Azure CLI 2.0.

Additional, install Azure CLI through python:

pip install --pre --user azure-nspkg 
pip install --pre --user azure-multiapi-storage
pip install azure-cli

For more details, follow this link.

About create a container for the storage. You can do that with the CLI command here:

az storage container create --name containerName --account-name accountName --account-key accountKey

And the container name has the limitation here:

A container organizes a set of blobs, similar to a folder in a file system. All blobs reside within a container. A storage account can contain an unlimited number of containers, and a container can store an unlimited number of blobs. Note that the container name must be lowercase.

So you should pay attention to it. Hope this will help you.

My solution was to reinstall the CLI using pip instead of brew. If you include `pip install azure-cli` in your answer I'll accept it. — Reed, Oct 31 '18 at 19:15

Creating a new Container with Azure-Cli

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