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id: azure-appconfiguration
version: "1.9.0"
license: MIT
license_treatment: permissive
maintenance: active
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# azure-appconfiguration — Microsoft Corporation Azure App Configuration Data Client Library for Python

License: permissive · Maintenance: active · Downloads: 9.1M/mo

## What it is and what it does

azure-appconfiguration is the official Python client library for Azure App Configuration, a managed service that centralizes application configuration storage. It lets you create, read, update, and delete configuration settings—key-value pairs with optional labels, content types, and tags—stored in an Azure Configuration Store. The library supports both connection-string and Entra ID token authentication, and includes features like snapshots (point-in-time immutable copies of your configuration) and label-based organization for multi-environment deployments.

Typical use is to instantiate AzureAppConfigurationClient with your store's credentials, then call methods to manage settings or snapshots. The package depends on azure-core for HTTP transport and authentication, isodate for timestamp parsing, and typing-extensions for type hints. It targets modern Python versions (3.10+) and is actively maintained by Microsoft as part of the Azure SDK.

Use it for:

- Centralize configuration for microservices deployed across regions, using labels to separate settings by environment or geography.
- Create immutable snapshots of your configuration before deployments to enable safe rollback if issues arise.
- Manage feature flags and application settings without redeploying code, updating them in real time via the configuration store.
- Separate configuration concerns from application code in cloud-native applications, reducing secrets in source control.
- Retrieve and cache configuration at application startup using the client's get and list methods.

## Worth the install?

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

Provides a Python client to create, retrieve, update, and delete application configuration settings stored in Azure App Configuration, a managed service for centralizing application configuration.

Yes. This is the official Azure App Configuration client for Python, actively maintained, permissively licensed (MIT), and has no known vulnerabilities. Install it if you are building on Azure and need centralized configuration management. The only prerequisite is an Azure subscription and an existing Configuration Store; if you lack those, this package is not applicable.

## Install

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

## Installing azure-appconfiguration

Before you install: Low install friction with a pure-Python wheel. Actively maintained as of 2026-06-25, with recent commits and no known security vulnerabilities. Requires Python 3.10 or later.

License in practice: MIT license permits commercial and private use with minimal restrictions; you may use, modify, and distribute this package freely provided you include the license notice.

Quickstart:

pip install azure-appconfiguration

from azure.appconfiguration import AzureAppConfigurationClient
import os

CONNECTION_STRING = os.environ["APPCONFIGURATION_CONNECTION_STRING"]
client = AzureAppConfigurationClient.from_connection_string(CONNECTION_STRING)

Requires an Azure subscription and an existing Azure App Configuration store; connection string or Entra ID credentials must be configured via environment variables.

Verify before relying:

- Performance characteristics and throughput limits for typical configuration retrieval and update workloads.
- Whether snapshot rollback operations are atomic and what consistency guarantees apply during concurrent updates.

## Package facts

- License: MIT (permissive)
- Python support: supports_current
- Install friction: low
- Maintenance: active
- Downloads: 9.1M/month (top 5,000 on PyPI)
- Known vulnerabilities: none known

## Tags

azure app configuration client, centralized configuration management, azure configuration store, application settings management, azure sdk configuration, config store client library, distributed app configuration, azure-sdk, configuration-management, cloud-native

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