azure-mgmt-msi

What it is and what it does

azure-mgmt-msi is the official Microsoft Azure SDK client library for managing Managed Service Identities in Python. It provides programmatic access to Azure MSI resources—user-assigned identities, system-assigned identities, and federated identity credentials—allowing you to create, update, delete, and query identity configurations within your Azure subscription. The library wraps Azure's MSI management API and handles authentication through Azure Active Directory.

The package is part of the broader Azure SDK for Python ecosystem and integrates with azure-common and azure-mgmt-core for credential and management patterns. It targets Python 3.9+ and uses type annotations for IDE support. Recent releases have added support for isolation scopes and system metadata tracking on identity resources. The library is actively maintained and suitable for infrastructure-as-code, identity lifecycle automation, and multi-tenant Azure applications.

Use it for:

• Automate creation and lifecycle management of user-assigned managed identities across Azure subscriptions
• Configure federated identity credentials for workload identity federation programmatically
• Query and audit existing managed identities and their associated resources in an Azure subscription
• Integrate identity provisioning into infrastructure-as-code pipelines or deployment automation
• Manage isolation scopes for identities in multi-tenant or compliance-sensitive environments

Worth the install?

AI-flagged interpretation of the facts on this page — verify before relying

Manages Azure Managed Service Identities through a Python client library, enabling programmatic control of identity resources in Azure subscriptions.

Yes. This is the official, actively maintained Azure SDK for MSI management with low install friction, permissive MIT licensing, and no known vulnerabilities. Install it if you need to manage Azure identities programmatically. Prerequisites are Python 3.9+ and proper Azure authentication environment variable configuration.

Install

azure-mgmt-msi on PyPI

pip install azure-mgmt-msi

uv add azure-mgmt-msi

poetry add azure-mgmt-msi

Installing azure-mgmt-msi

Before you install

Low install friction with a pure-wheel distribution. Actively maintained as of 2025-07-21 with recent feature additions. Depends on four stable Azure SDK packages (isodate, typing-extensions, azure-common, azure-mgmt-core).

License in practice

MIT License (permissive) allows commercial and private use with minimal restrictions. No licensing concerns for most projects.

Quickstart

pip install azure-mgmt-msi

from azure.mgmt.msi import ManagedServiceIdentityClient
from azure.common import credentials
import os

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

Requires Python 3.9+. Azure authentication environment variables (AZURE_CLIENT_ID, AZURE_TENANT_ID, AZURE_CLIENT_SECRET, AZURE_SUBSCRIPTION_ID) must be configured before use.

Verify before relying

• Whether isolation_scope parameter (added in 7.1.0) requires specific Azure API version support
• Async client availability and feature parity with synchronous ManagedServiceIdentityClient
• Current credential authentication patterns after breaking changes in version 6.0.0b1

Package facts

Evidence: azure_mgmt_msi-7.1.0-py3-none-any.whl

Keywords: azure, azure sdk

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