azure-cli rpm take ~700MB of disk space

[chantra]

Describe the bug

Installing azure-cli-2.36.0-1.el8.x86_64 result in 730MB worth of files installed.

To Reproduce

rpm -q --queryformat '%{SIZE} %{NAME} %{VERSION}\n' azure-cli
730875850 azure-cli 2.36.0

the RPM itself is only 50MB (compressed):

dnf info azure-cli-2.36.0-1.el8.x86_64
Name         : azure-cli
Version      : 2.36.0
Release      : 1.el8
Architecture : x86_64
Size         : 50 M
Source       : azure-cli-2.36.0-1.el8.src.rpm
Repository   : rolling_stable_microsoft
Summary      : Azure CLI
URL          : https://docs.microsoft.com/cli/azure/install-azure-cli
License      : MIT
Description  : A great cloud needs great tools; we're excited to introduce Azure CLI,
             :  our next generation multi-platform command line experience for Azure.

There is probably a good reason for that many libraries to be shipped along, such as ensuring that the CLI is self contained and does not depend on system libraries, but it seems there is an abnormal amount of historical versions shipped along, such as:

du -sh /usr/lib64/az/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azure/mgmt/compute/v*     
1.5M    /usr/lib64/az/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azure/mgmt/compute/v2015_06_15
1.6M    /usr/lib64/az/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azure/mgmt/compute/v2016_03_30
2.1M    /usr/lib64/az/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azure/mgmt/compute/v2016_04_30_preview
2.6M    /usr/lib64/az/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azure/mgmt/compute/v2017_03_30
172K    /usr/lib64/az/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azure/mgmt/compute/v2017_09_01
2.6M    /usr/lib64/az/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azure/mgmt/compute/v2017_12_01
3.0M    /usr/lib64/az/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azure/mgmt/compute/v2018_04_01
3.4M    /usr/lib64/az/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azure/mgmt/compute/v2018_06_01
496K    /usr/lib64/az/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azure/mgmt/compute/v2018_09_30
2.7M    /usr/lib64/az/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azure/mgmt/compute/v2018_10_01
3.9M    /usr/lib64/az/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azure/mgmt/compute/v2019_03_01
172K    /usr/lib64/az/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azure/mgmt/compute/v2019_04_01
4.4M    /usr/lib64/az/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azure/mgmt/compute/v2019_07_01
656K    /usr/lib64/az/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azure/mgmt/compute/v2019_11_01
4.1M    /usr/lib64/az/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azure/mgmt/compute/v2019_12_01
816K    /usr/lib64/az/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azure/mgmt/compute/v2020_05_01
3.8M    /usr/lib64/az/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azure/mgmt/compute/v2020_06_01
840K    /usr/lib64/az/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azure/mgmt/compute/v2020_06_30
1.9M    /usr/lib64/az/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azure/mgmt/compute/v2020_09_30
696K    /usr/lib64/az/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azure/mgmt/compute/v2020_10_01_preview
4.8M    /usr/lib64/az/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azure/mgmt/compute/v2020_12_01
4.9M    /usr/lib64/az/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azure/mgmt/compute/v2021_03_01
5.4M    /usr/lib64/az/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azure/mgmt/compute/v2021_04_01
5.6M    /usr/lib64/az/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azure/mgmt/compute/v2021_07_01
1.1M    /usr/lib64/az/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azure/mgmt/compute/v2021_08_01
976K    /usr/lib64/az/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azure/mgmt/compute/v2021_10_01
4.6M    /usr/lib64/az/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azure/mgmt/compute/v2021_11_01
1.1M    /usr/lib64/az/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azure/mgmt/compute/v2021_12_01

so I wonder if there is ways to trim some of the package.

Expected behavior

Leaner package.

Environment summary

• CentOS8
• azure-cli-2.36.0-1.el8.x86_64

Installed using rpm from MS repo.

[yonzhan]

@jiasli for awareness

[chantra]

BTW, the same issue holds for the deb package too:

-rw-rw-r-- 1 chantra chantra 48M Jul 16  2020 azure-cli_2.9.1-1~focal_all.deb

and installed size:

mkdir azure-cli
dpkg-deb -x azure-cli_2.9.1-1\~focal_all.deb azure-cli
du -sh azure-cli
603M    azure-cli

[yonzhan]

It is caused by the huge network python SDK which Azure CLI depends on and we are working with corresponding team to reduce the package size.

[chantra]

Thanks for the update @yonzhan !

[advian-digirata]

Any updates to this?

[mt35-rs]

I just audited my disk space and az and its dependencies are taking up 1Gb of disk space. That's a burden for my desktop but it's crazy when you try to bundle az into a Docker image. This looks really bad when compared to any of the Go based CLI's which can statically compile all the dependencies in making them a) easier to install and b) consume far less disk space.

[jiasli]

We have developed a script to trim unused API versions for Windows MSI pacakge (#23946). We will extend it to other packages.

[mt35-rs]

Note, the issue (at least on Linux) is not the API versions, it is the fact that it brings in its own specific installation of the Python runtime.