az ml not a valid command in bash and powershell on azure cli in portal

Tried executing: az ml account experimentation create -n jps00001 -g MyResourceGroup Error: az: error: argument _command_package: invalid choice: ml

Environment summary

az --version in BASH on azure portal:

jim@Azure:~$ az --version azure-cli (2.0.23)

acr (2.0.17) acs (2.0.22) advisor (0.1.0) appservice (0.1.22) backup (1.0.3) batch (3.1.7) batchai (0.1.3) billing (0.1.6) cdn (0.0.10) cloud (2.0.10) cognitiveservices (0.1.9) command-modules-nspkg (2.0.1) configure (2.0.12) consumption (0.2.0) container (0.1.15) core (2.0.23) cosmosdb (0.1.15) dla (0.0.15) dls (0.0.18) eventgrid (0.1.5) extension (0.0.6) feedback (2.0.6) find (0.2.7) interactive (0.3.11) iot (0.1.15) keyvault (2.0.15) lab (0.0.13) monitor (0.0.13) network (2.0.19) nspkg (3.0.1) profile (2.0.16) rdbms (0.0.9) redis (0.2.10) reservations (0.1.0) resource (2.0.19) role (2.0.15) servicefabric (0.0.7) sql (2.0.17) storage (2.0.21) vm (2.0.20)

Python location ‘/opt/az/bin/python3’ Extensions directory ‘/home/jim/.azure/cliextensions’

Python (Linux) 3.6.1 (default, Dec 15 2017, 17:51:12) [GCC 4.8.4]

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az --version PowerShell in Azure:

Azure:> az --version azure-cli (2.0.22)

acr (2.0.16) acs (2.0.21) advisor (0.1.0) appservice (0.1.21) backup (1.0.3) batch (3.1.7) batchai (0.1.3) billing (0.1.6) cdn (0.0.10) cloud (2.0.10) cognitiveservices (0.1.9) command-modules-nspkg (2.0.1) configure (2.0.12) consumption (0.2.0) container (0.1.14) core (2.0.22) cosmosdb (0.1.15) dla (0.0.15) dls (0.0.18) eventgrid (0.1.5) extension (0.0.6) feedback (2.0.6) find (0.2.7) interactive (0.3.11) iot (0.1.14) keyvault (2.0.14) lab (0.0.13) monitor (0.0.13) network (2.0.18) nspkg (3.0.1) profile (2.0.15) rdbms (0.0.9) redis (0.2.10) reservations (0.1.0) resource (2.0.19) role (2.0.15) servicefabric (0.0.6) sql (2.0.16) storage (2.0.20) vm (2.0.19)

Python location ‘C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Azure\CLI2\python.exe’ Extensions directory ‘C:\Users\ContainerAdministrator\CloudDrive.pscloudshell.azure\cliextensions’

Python (Windows) 3.6.1 (v3.6.1:69c0db5, Mar 21 2017, 17:54:52) [MSC v.1900 32 bit (Intel)]

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Shell Type Azure portal bash and PowerShell on Azure, both same result

[vjrantal]

I had this same problem and in my case the issue was that pip installed azure-cli-ml to a location that wasn’t looked at when executing the system default python.

You could either fix the python / pip installation so that both point to the same location or check which python pip uses and then explicitly load the module with that python binary. For example:

/usr/local/opt/python/bin/python2.7 -m azure.cli ml account -h

You can see how az loads the module with something like cat $(which az).

I also noticed that just doing pip install azure-cli-ml might result into version compatibility issues. Getting tested versions can be done with:

pip install -r https://aka.ms/az-ml-o16n-cli-requirements-file

[tjprescott]

ML is not a module in the CLI. The ML team offers a customized version of the CLI that includes these commands.