---
id: pulumi-azure-native
version: "3.26.0"
license: Apache-2.0
license_treatment: permissive
maintenance: active
---

# pulumi-azure-native — A native Pulumi package for creating and managing Azure resources.

License: permissive · Maintenance: active · Downloads: 704.0K/mo

## What it is and what it does

pulumi_azure_native is a Pulumi provider that lets you define and deploy Azure infrastructure using Python code. It wraps the Azure Resource Manager REST API directly, giving you access to the full breadth of Azure services—compute, storage, networking, key vaults, and more—without an intermediate abstraction layer. You write Python code to declare resources, and Pulumi handles provisioning, updates, and teardown.

The package is one of four runtime dependencies you'll use alongside pulumi itself. It's designed for teams building cloud applications on Azure who want infrastructure defined in code, version-controlled, and integrated into CI/CD pipelines. The direct ARM API integration means you get high fidelity with Azure's actual capabilities, though you'll need to install the Pulumi CLI separately and configure Azure credentials before you can deploy.

Use it for:

- Define multi-tier Azure applications (VMs, databases, networking) in Python and deploy them repeatably.
- Automate Azure resource provisioning in CI/CD pipelines using Pulumi stacks and configuration.
- Manage Azure infrastructure changes as code, with version control and code review workflows.
- Build reusable Python modules for common Azure deployment patterns (e.g., app service + database).
- Migrate existing ARM templates or manual Azure deployments to infrastructure-as-code.

## Worth the install?

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

Provides Python bindings to create and manage Azure resources through Pulumi's infrastructure-as-code framework, with direct access to the full Azure Resource Manager REST API.

Yes. The package is actively maintained (released 1 day ago), has no known vulnerabilities, low install friction, and permissive licensing. It's the recommended Pulumi provider for Azure according to its own documentation. Install it if you're already using Pulumi and targeting Azure; it's not a standalone tool, so you'll need the Pulumi CLI and Azure credentials configured first.

## Install

pip install pulumi-azure-native
uv add pulumi-azure-native
poetry add pulumi-azure-native

## Installing pulumi-azure-native

Before you install: Low install friction with a pure-Python wheel. Active maintenance—released 1 day ago—and four lightweight runtime dependencies (parver, pulumi, semver, typing-extensions). Requires Python 3.9 or later.

License in practice: Licensed under Apache-2.0 (permissive), allowing use in commercial and open-source projects with minimal restrictions; you must retain license notices.

Quickstart:

pip install pulumi_azure_native

import pulumi
import pulumi_azure_native as azure_native

# Create an Azure resource group
resource_group = azure_native.resources.ResourceGroup('my-rg')

Requires the Pulumi CLI to be installed and configured separately; Azure credentials must be set up (via environment variables or Azure CLI authentication).

Verify before relying:

- Whether the package supports all current Azure services or only a subset of the ARM API surface.
- Performance characteristics and any rate-limiting behavior when managing large numbers of resources.
- Compatibility guarantees between pulumi_azure_native versions and the Pulumi CLI version.

## Package facts

- License: Apache-2.0 (permissive)
- Python support: supports_current
- Install friction: low
- Maintenance: active
- Downloads: 704.0K/month (top 15,000 on PyPI)
- Known vulnerabilities: none known

## Tags

azure infrastructure as code python, pulumi azure native provider, azure resource manager automation, cloud infrastructure provisioning azure, azure arm api python sdk, infrastructure as code azure, pulumi azure resources, infrastructure-as-code, cloud-provisioning, azure

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