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id: azure-mgmt-servicelinker
version: "1.1.0"
license: MIT License
license_treatment: permissive
maintenance: active
---

# azure-mgmt-servicelinker — Microsoft Azure Service Linker Management Client Library for Python

License: permissive · Maintenance: active · Downloads: 5.1M/mo

## What it is and what it does

This is the official Microsoft Azure SDK client library for managing Azure Service Linker resources. It provides a Python interface to create, update, validate, and delete service connections that link Azure applications to backend services. The library wraps Azure's management API and handles authentication, request serialization, and response parsing.

Service Linker is an Azure feature that simplifies connecting applications to databases, caches, and other services by managing connection strings and credentials. This package is used by developers building infrastructure-as-code solutions, automation scripts, or applications that programmatically configure Azure service connections. It depends on msrest for HTTP communication, azure-common for shared Azure utilities, and azure-mgmt-core for management plane functionality.

Use it for:

- Automate creation of service linkers between Azure App Service and databases during infrastructure provisioning.
- Build management dashboards that list, validate, and update existing service linker configurations across multiple Azure resources.
- Implement CI/CD pipelines that configure service connections for newly deployed applications without manual Azure portal steps.
- Validate service linker connectivity and configuration as part of application health checks or deployment verification workflows.

## Worth the install?

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

Manages Azure Service Linker resources through a Python client library, enabling programmatic creation and configuration of service connections in Azure.

Yes. This is the official Azure SDK for managing Service Linker resources. Install it if you need to programmatically manage Azure service connections in Python. The package is actively maintained, has no known vulnerabilities, low install friction, and uses a permissive MIT license. It is suitable for production use in Azure automation and infrastructure-as-code workflows.

## Install

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

## Installing azure-mgmt-servicelinker

Before you install: Low install friction with a pure-Python wheel distribution. Actively maintained as of 2026-08-14 with recent commits and no known vulnerabilities. Depends on msrest, azure-common, and azure-mgmt-core.

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

Quickstart:

pip install azure-mgmt-servicelinker

from azure.mgmt.servicelinker import ServiceLinkerManagementClient
from azure.identity import DefaultAzureCredential

credential = DefaultAzureCredential()
client = ServiceLinkerManagementClient(subscription_id, credential)

Requires Azure credentials (via azure-identity or similar) and a valid Azure subscription to authenticate and interact with Azure resources.

Verify before relying:

- Whether the package supports all current Azure Service Linker API operations beyond the 1.1.0 release (2022-05-16).
- Performance characteristics and rate-limiting behavior when managing large numbers of service linkers.

## Package facts

- License: MIT License (permissive)
- Python support: supports_current
- Install friction: low
- Maintenance: active
- Downloads: 5.1M/month (top 5,000 on PyPI)
- Known vulnerabilities: none known

## Tags

azure service linker management, azure service connections python, azure mgmt client library, azure resource linking api, azure service configuration python, azure-sdk, cloud-management, infrastructure-as-code

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