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

# azure-mgmt-trafficmanager — Microsoft Azure Traffic Manager Management Client Library for Python

License: permissive · Maintenance: active · Downloads: 7.1M/mo

## What it is and what it does

This is the official Microsoft Azure Traffic Manager Management Client Library for Python. It wraps the Azure Resource Manager API to let you programmatically create, update, delete, and query Traffic Manager profiles, endpoints, and monitoring configurations. The library handles HTTP sessions and provides both synchronous and asynchronous operation modes.

The package is part of the broader Azure SDK for Python and follows modern Azure SDK patterns: it uses type annotations for IDE support, integrates with tracing libraries, and throws azure.core.exceptions.HttpResponseError for failures. It requires Python 3.7 or later and is actively maintained by Microsoft, with support for Python 3.7, 3.8, 3.9, 3.10, and 3.11.

Use it for:

- Automate creation and configuration of Traffic Manager profiles and endpoints as part of infrastructure-as-code workflows.
- Dynamically add or remove endpoints from a Traffic Manager profile in response to scaling events or health changes.
- Query Traffic Manager resource state and monitoring configuration from within a Python application or management tool.
- Integrate Traffic Manager management into a larger Azure resource orchestration or deployment pipeline.
- Check Traffic Manager name availability programmatically before creating new profiles using check_traffic_manager_name_availability_v2.

## Worth the install?

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

Provides a Python client library to manage Azure Traffic Manager resources—profiles, endpoints, and monitoring configurations—via the Azure Resource Manager API.

Yes. This is the official, actively maintained Azure Traffic Manager client for Python. Install it if you need to manage Traffic Manager resources programmatically. Low friction, no security vulnerabilities, permissive MIT license, and stable API make it a straightforward choice for Azure-based workloads.

## Install

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

## Installing azure-mgmt-trafficmanager

Before you install: Low install friction; a pure-Python wheel with no compiled dependencies. Actively maintained as part of the Azure SDK ecosystem, with recent updates in 2023.

License in practice: MIT License permits unrestricted use, modification, and distribution in both open-source and commercial contexts.

Quickstart:

pip install azure-mgmt-trafficmanager

from azure.mgmt.trafficmanager import TrafficManagerManagementClient
import os

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

Requires Python 3.7+. Azure authentication credentials must be configured as environment variables (AZURE_CLIENT_ID, AZURE_TENANT_ID, AZURE_CLIENT_SECRET, AZURE_SUBSCRIPTION_ID) or passed explicitly.

Verify before relying:

- Whether additional packages beyond those listed are required as runtime dependencies for authentication.
- Performance characteristics when managing large numbers of endpoints or profiles.
- Async client availability and maturity level in the aio namespace.
- Whether the package is suitable for production workloads or still considered beta despite version 1.1.0.

## Package facts

- License: MIT License (permissive)
- Python support: supports_current
- Install friction: low
- Maintenance: active
- Downloads: 7.1M/month (top 5,000 on PyPI)
- Known vulnerabilities: none known

## Tags

azure traffic manager client, azure load balancing management, azure endpoint management, azure traffic routing api, azure resource manager traffic, azure dns traffic management, azure profile management, azure-sdk, cloud-management, traffic-routing

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