For system, network and cloud administrators

How to retrieve OS details from your Azure virtual machine using Azure CLI

In order to view what public SSH key your Azure virtual machine is using or some other OS details like the admin username of your machine, you can use:

az vm show --resource-group YourResourceGroup --name YourVMName --query "osProfile"

How to retrieve the admin username of your Azure virtual machine using Azure CLI

If you need to know what’s the admin username of a particular Azure virtual machine, use:

az vm show --resource-group YourResourceGroup --name YourVMName --query "osProfile.adminUsername"