---
title: Sessions
description: Start a subscription and use its Azure Resource Manager token.
---

Every subscription of the tenant is a session. Start requests an Azure Resource Manager token for the signed-in account and renews it from the tenant's token cache.

```sh
rolle start "Contoso Production"
eval "$(rolle env "Contoso Production")"   # AZURE_ACCESS_TOKEN, AZURE_SUBSCRIPTION_ID, AZURE_TENANT_ID
rolle shell "Contoso Production"           # a terminal with the same variables
rolle console "Contoso Production"         # the Azure portal for the tenant
```

The session row in the desktop app has Start, Open terminal, Open console, and Copy credentials as env. Sessions renew while the tenant sign-in is valid and stop when it expires.

rolle does not write to the az CLI token cache. Tools that read `AZURE_ACCESS_TOKEN` or take a token on the command line work. For `az`, sign in with `az login`.