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id: azure-appconfiguration-provider
version: "2.5.0"
license: MIT License
license_treatment: permissive
maintenance: active
---

# azure-appconfiguration-provider — Microsoft App Configuration Provider Library for Python

License: permissive · Maintenance: active · Downloads: 819.9K/mo

## What it is and what it does

This package extends the base Azure SDK to provide a higher-level provider for loading application configurations from Azure App Configuration stores. It wraps azure-appconfiguration and adds features like dynamic refresh on a schedule, feature flag loading, Key Vault secret resolution, and multi-selector filtering by key patterns, labels, tags, or snapshots. You connect using either a connection string or Entra ID credentials, then call load() to populate a dictionary of settings that your application can access immediately.

The provider handles common configuration management patterns: filtering which settings to load, trimming key prefixes, resolving secrets stored in Key Vault, and periodically checking for changes to refresh your in-memory config. It supports both synchronous and async workflows. Dependencies include azure-core, azure-appconfiguration, azure-keyvault-secrets, and dnspython; all are standard Azure SDK components with low install friction.

Use it for:

- Centralize application settings across multiple environments (dev, staging, prod) in a single Azure App Configuration store.
- Load feature flags from Azure and toggle features dynamically without redeploying code.
- Resolve secrets stored in Azure Key Vault and inject them into your application configuration at startup.
- Periodically refresh configuration values on a schedule and react to changes via callbacks.
- Filter and load only relevant configuration subsets using key patterns, labels, or tags.
- Support multi-region deployments with geo-replication and automatic replica discovery.

## Worth the install?

AI-flagged interpretation of the facts above — verify before relying.

Loads application configurations from Azure App Configuration stores into Python applications, with support for dynamic refresh, feature flags, Key Vault secret resolution, and multi-selector filtering.

Yes. The package is actively maintained, has no known vulnerabilities, uses a permissive MIT license, and provides a mature abstraction over Azure's configuration and secrets services. Install it if you are building on Azure and need centralized, dynamic configuration management with feature flags and secret resolution. The low install friction and standard Azure SDK dependencies make adoption straightforward.

## Install

pip install azure-appconfiguration-provider
uv add azure-appconfiguration-provider
poetry add azure-appconfiguration-provider

## Installing azure-appconfiguration-provider

Before you install: Low install friction with a pure Python wheel. Maintained actively with recent releases; last commit 2026-08-14. Depends on four Azure SDK packages (azure-core, azure-appconfiguration, azure-keyvault-secrets, dnspython), all standard Azure ecosystem components.

License in practice: MIT License permits commercial use, modification, and distribution with minimal restrictions. Suitable for most projects including proprietary applications.

Quickstart:

import os
from azure.appconfiguration.provider import load

connection_string = os.environ["APPCONFIGURATION_CONNECTION_STRING"]
config = load(connection_string=connection_string)
# Access config as a dictionary of key/value pairs

Requires Azure App Configuration store credentials (connection string or Entra ID endpoint) and appropriate Azure permissions to read configurations.

Verify before relying:

- Whether async support via azure.appconfiguration.provider.aio is production-ready and what its performance characteristics are.
- Behavior and performance of geo-replication load balancing under various failure scenarios.
- Whether secret refresh via secret_refresh_interval works without active Key Vault connectivity.

## Package facts

- License: MIT License (permissive)
- Python support: supports_current
- Install friction: low
- Maintenance: active
- Downloads: 819.9K/month (top 5,000 on PyPI)
- Known vulnerabilities: none known

## Tags

azure app configuration provider, load azure config python, azure configuration management, feature flags azure, dynamic configuration refresh, key vault secrets resolver, azure settings loader, azure-sdk, configuration-management, secrets-handling

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