Frequently Asked Questions

Does the Region Selection toolkit toolkit work on Mac? Yes it does.

- Follow the below steps as pre-requisites so that you can successfully use A2ATK on a Mac.

1. Install homebrew if you do not have it. Open a terminal and run

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"

More info can be found here: https://brew.sh/

1. Once homebrew is installed, Install PowerShell.

brew install powershell

3. The executable to get into PowerShell is "pwsh". In a terminal you can type "pwsh" and you will get a PowerShell prompt.

└🤘-> pwsh PowerShell 7.5.2 PS /Users/user>

4. Now install the required modules.

   Install-Module Az (This is the Azure PowerShell Module) Import-Module Az (Import the module) Install-Module -Name Az.CostManagement (This is the Azure Cost Management PowerShell Module) Import-Module Az.CostManagement (Import the module) Install-Module -Name ImportExcel (This is the Excel PowerShell Module) - So that it can export to Excel correctly.

   One last package that needs to be installed to get the Excel formatting done correctly is mono-libgdiplus You can do this by running

   brew install mono-libgdiplus

Now just follow the rest of the steps in the Docs as if you were running Windows. All the commands will work in pwsh from the Mac terminal.