March 2026 monthly summary focusing on key features delivered, major fixes, and business impact across Azure CLI and its extensions. Delivered CLI-level enhancements for VM Scale Sets and networking, expanded edge-zone capabilities, and improved test and API-version alignment to support reliability and faster customer value.

February 2026: Focused feature delivery in Azure CLI to improve data-disk performance tuning for UltraSSD. Implemented new parameters on az vm create to specify IOPS and MBPS for data disks, enabling workload-specific performance tuning and greater deployment flexibility. This change is tracked under commit 2df75ef7997488f379187412e007e18eb8a31741 with the message "[Compute] `az vm create`: Add parameters `--data-disk-mbps` and `--data-disk-iops` to support IOPS and MBPS (#32717)". Impact: Empowers customers to pre-tune IOPS/throughput at provisioning time, reducing post-deployment performance tuning and enabling more predictable SLAs for UltraSSD-backed workloads. Work patterns and value: A focused feature addition with clear traceability, aligning with the Azure CLI goal of providing granular performance controls. Business value includes faster provisioning, better workload performance predictability, and potential cost optimization through right-sizing IOPS/MBPS.

January 2026 monthly work summary for Azure CLI development (Azure/azure-cli). Focused on delivering security-focused authentication enhancements and aligning the command structure with the latest Azure CLI architecture, while stabilizing credential handling to reduce automation risks.

December 2025 monthly summary for Azure/azure-cli focusing on delivering a pivotal CLI enhancement for network virtual appliances (NVAs). The main feature delivered was adding a new parameter --nva-interface-configurations to az network virtual-appliance, enabling users to specify interface configurations directly during NVA creation. This increases flexibility, usability, and manageability of NVAs, and required updates to the API version and adjustments to existing parameters for consistency. No major bugs were reported or fixed this month; maintenance work emphasized API compatibility and CLI UX improvements to support automation and scalability of NVA deployments.