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id: microsoft-kiota-authentication-azure
version: "1.11.9"
license: unclear
license_treatment: permissive
maintenance: active
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# microsoft-kiota-authentication-azure — Core abstractions for kiota generated libraries in Python

License: permissive · Maintenance: active · Downloads: 14.9M/mo

## What it is and what it does

This package bridges Azure identity services with Kiota-generated API client libraries, enabling secure HTTP authentication. It implements Kiota's authentication provider interface using Azure's identity library, allowing generated clients to authenticate requests against Azure-protected APIs (including Microsoft Graph) using Azure credentials.

The package is part of the Kiota ecosystem—a code generation framework for building API clients from OpenAPI specifications. When you generate a client with Kiota, you need an authentication provider to sign requests; this library supplies that provider using Azure's credential chain, supporting multiple authentication flows (managed identity, service principal, user credentials) depending on your deployment environment.

Use it for:

- Authenticate Kiota-generated Microsoft Graph clients using Azure service principals or managed identities in cloud applications.
- Build Python applications that call Azure-protected APIs with automatic credential handling via DefaultAzureCredential.
- Integrate Kiota clients into Azure Functions or container services where Azure identity is already configured.
- Enable local development and production authentication using the same credential chain across environments.
- Add OpenTelemetry tracing to API calls made through Kiota-generated clients authenticated with Azure.

## Worth the install?

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

Provides Azure identity authentication for HTTP requests in Kiota-generated API client libraries, integrating with Azure's identity services.

Yes. This is an actively maintained, production-stable library with no known vulnerabilities, low install friction, and permissive licensing. Install it if you are using Kiota-generated clients and need to authenticate against Azure-protected APIs or Microsoft Graph. It is the standard authentication bridge for that use case.

## Install

pip install microsoft-kiota-authentication-azure
uv add microsoft-kiota-authentication-azure
poetry add microsoft-kiota-authentication-azure

## Installing microsoft-kiota-authentication-azure

Before you install: Low friction installation with a pure Python wheel. Active maintenance with a recent release and no known vulnerabilities. Depends on well-established libraries: aiohttp, azure-core, microsoft-kiota-abstractions, and OpenTelemetry components.

License in practice: Licensed under MIT (permissive), allowing commercial and private use with minimal restrictions.

Quickstart:

pip install microsoft-kiota-authentication-azure

from microsoft_kiota_authentication_azure import AzureIdentityAuthenticationProvider
from azure.identity import DefaultAzureCredential

credential = DefaultAzureCredential()
auth_provider = AzureIdentityAuthenticationProvider(credential)

Requires Python 3.10 or later. Azure credentials must be configured in your environment (e.g., via AZURE_TENANT_ID, AZURE_CLIENT_ID, AZURE_CLIENT_SECRET or local Azure CLI login).

Verify before relying:

- Whether this package works with all Azure credential types or only specific ones from azure-identity
- Performance characteristics when handling concurrent authentication requests
- Specific OpenTelemetry instrumentation capabilities beyond what the SDK provides

## Package facts

- License: not declared (permissive)
- Python support: supports_current
- Install friction: low
- Maintenance: active
- Downloads: 14.9M/month (top 5,000 on PyPI)
- Known vulnerabilities: none known

## Tags

azure identity authentication, kiota azure auth, azure http request authentication, microsoft graph api authentication, azure identity provider, kiota authentication provider, azure credential handler, azure-integration, api-client-auth, kiota-ecosystem

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