Ship azure-cli as binary instead as Python module

[mblaschke-daimlertruck]

Azure-cli is currently shipped as Python module which requires the installation of Python.
On Linux (eg. Docker images) it installs ~1 GB of runtime and modules (related to #23366)

Shipping the azure-cli as standalone binary would improve the situation and would make azure-cli independent from the installed Python runtime.

Example:
docker-compose 1.x was shipped as standalone binary with ~10 MiB.

[yonzhan]

@jiasli for awareness

[jiasli]

The latest Azure CLI composes of 66 command modules and 4785 commands. The versatility certainly justifies its size.

We are working right now on reducing Azure CLI package size. You may check more details in #7387.

Previously, we indeed tried to package Azure CLI as one executable utilizing PyInstaller (#16115), but we realized the executable would be hundreds of MBs, which is certainly not a good idea.

[mblaschke-daimlertruck]

any progress?

az cli is still bigger than my whole IDE, the container image still has ~600 MiB.