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id: azure-mgmt-authorization
version: "4.0.0"
license: MIT License
license_treatment: permissive
maintenance: active
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# azure-mgmt-authorization — Microsoft Azure Authorization Management Client Library for Python

License: permissive · Maintenance: active · Downloads: 9.8M/mo

## What it is and what it does

This is Microsoft's official Python client library for Azure Authorization Management. It provides programmatic access to Azure's role-based access control system, allowing you to create, read, update, and delete role assignments, manage role definitions, and configure access reviews and privileged identity management settings. The library wraps Azure's REST API and requires authentication via Azure Active Directory.

The package is designed for developers building automation, governance, or compliance tools on Azure. Version 4.0.0 added support for role assignment validation, condition-based permissions, and enhanced alert configuration. The library requires Python 3.7 or later and is actively maintained by Microsoft.

Use it for:

- Automate role assignment provisioning and deprovisioning in large Azure tenants.
- Build compliance dashboards that audit who has access to which resources.
- Implement access review workflows and alert configurations programmatically.
- Manage deny assignments and conditional permissions across multiple subscriptions.
- Integrate Azure authorization into custom identity governance platforms.

## Worth the install?

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

Manages Azure role-based access control, role assignments, and authorization policies through the Azure Management API.

Yes. This is the official Microsoft library for Azure authorization management, actively maintained, with no security vulnerabilities and permissive MIT licensing. Install it if you need to automate or query Azure access control from Python. The only prerequisite is Azure credentials and a subscription; the package itself installs cleanly with no complex dependencies.

## Install

pip install azure-mgmt-authorization
uv add azure-mgmt-authorization
poetry add azure-mgmt-authorization

## Installing azure-mgmt-authorization

Before you install: Low friction install as a pure Python wheel. Active maintenance with last commit 2026-08-14. Supports Python 3.7 through 3.11.

License in practice: MIT License permits commercial and private use with minimal restrictions; suitable for most deployment scenarios.

Quickstart:

pip install azure-mgmt-authorization

from azure.mgmt.authorization import AuthorizationManagementClient
import os

sub_id = os.getenv("AZURE_SUBSCRIPTION_ID")
client = AuthorizationManagementClient(credential=credential, subscription_id=sub_id)

Requires Azure subscription and environment variables: AZURE_CLIENT_ID, AZURE_TENANT_ID, AZURE_CLIENT_SECRET, AZURE_SUBSCRIPTION_ID.

Verify before relying:

- Whether deny assignments with conditions are fully supported in all Azure environments.
- Performance characteristics when managing large numbers of role assignments or access reviews.
- Compatibility with Azure Government or other sovereign cloud deployments.
- Authentication mechanism and credential handling beyond what the description excerpt covers.

## Package facts

- License: MIT License (permissive)
- Python support: supports_current
- Install friction: low
- Maintenance: active
- Downloads: 9.8M/month (top 5,000 on PyPI)
- Known vulnerabilities: none known

## Tags

azure rbac management, azure role assignments, azure authorization api, azure access control, azure identity and access, azure permission management, azure pim integration, azure-sdk, cloud-iam, rbac

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