add-credential interactive mode for Azure states subscription id is optional

[Peter Matulis]

When adding a credential for cloud type 'azure' in interactive mode the 'subscription-id' is marked as optional. The command does succeed without an id but if there are more than one (as in my case) then Juju may choose the wrong one (as it did for me). Perhaps we can have the optional aspect included only if Juju detects a single id.

[Tim McNamara (tim-clicks)]

Thanks for reporting this Peter. Were you able to work around this? I assume deleting the credential that you just created, then creating another with the correct subscription id would be a way around this.

[Anastasia (anastasia-macmood)]

Peter,

Good pickup!
Generally, if a user has more than one id, they'd be very pedantic when adding a credential about which one they want.

However, I agree that we should avoid trying to guess and improve the UX as you describe.

[Tim McNamara (tim-clicks)]

Perhaps we could get better at documenting some nuances here..

When a subscription ID is not provided, Juju relies on the default subscription provided by the Azure CLI. (You can check your current default via `az account show`). If Juju chooses the "wrong" subscription, that's because the az command is pointing to the wrong sub.

Note that by running `juju autoload-credentials`, Juju will associate each cloud with the "right" subscription. That's because it uses `az account list` and `az cloud list` to link them.

[Tim McNamara (tim-clicks)]

A change that makes subscription ID compulsory when are multiple accounts is currently under review:

https://github.com/juju/juju/pull/10432

[Canonical Juju QA Bot (juju-qa-bot)]

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