---
id: pulumi-azuread
version: "6.10.0"
license: Apache-2.0
license_treatment: permissive
maintenance: active
---

# pulumi-azuread — A Pulumi package for creating and managing Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) cloud resources.

License: permissive · Maintenance: active · Downloads: 372.3K/mo

## What it is and what it does

Pulumi-azuread is a Pulumi resource provider that bridges Python code to Azure Active Directory, letting you declare and manage Azure AD objects (users, groups, applications, service principals) as infrastructure-as-code. It wraps the Azure AD API and integrates with Pulumi's state management and deployment workflow, so you can version-control your identity infrastructure alongside other cloud resources.

You write Python code using the provider's resource classes, configure Azure credentials through environment variables or Pulumi config, and run `pulumi up` to create or update resources. The package depends on pulumi (the core framework), parver and semver (for version handling), and typing-extensions (for type hints). It requires Python 3.9 or later and the Pulumi CLI to be installed separately.

Use it for:

- Provision and manage Azure AD users, groups, and role assignments as part of automated infrastructure deployment.
- Define Azure AD applications and service principals for multi-tenant SaaS or enterprise integrations in code.
- Replicate Azure AD resources across multiple environments (dev, staging, production) using the same Pulumi program.
- Integrate Azure AD resource management into CI/CD pipelines for consistent identity governance.
- Version-control Azure AD configuration changes alongside application and infrastructure code in a single repository.

## Worth the install?

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

Pulumi provider for Azure Active Directory that lets you define and manage Azure AD resources (users, groups, applications, service principals) as code using Python.

Yes, if you use Pulumi and need to manage Azure AD resources as code. The package is actively maintained, has low install friction, carries a permissive license, and integrates cleanly with Pulumi's workflow. Install it only after setting up the Pulumi CLI and Azure credentials; it is not a standalone tool.

## Install

pip install pulumi-azuread
uv add pulumi-azuread
poetry add pulumi-azuread

## Installing pulumi-azuread

Before you install: Low install friction; pure Python wheel with four lightweight runtime dependencies (parver, pulumi, semver, typing-extensions). Actively maintained with a release 35 days old and recent commits.

License in practice: Apache-2.0 permissive license allows use in commercial and open-source projects with minimal restrictions; you must include a copy of the license and state changes.

Quickstart:

pip install pulumi-azuread

import pulumi
import pulumi_azuread as azuread

user = azuread.User("example", user_principal_name="user@example.com")

Requires Pulumi CLI installed first and Azure credentials (clientId, tenantId, clientSecret or certificate) configured via environment variables or Pulumi config.

Verify before relying:

- Specific Azure AD resource types supported (users, groups, applications, service principals, etc.) beyond the general claim in the description.
- Whether version 6.10.0 is compatible with all current Pulumi CLI versions or if there are known version constraints.
- Performance characteristics or limits when managing large numbers of Azure AD resources.

## Package facts

- License: Apache-2.0 (permissive)
- Python support: supports_current
- Install friction: low
- Maintenance: active
- Downloads: 372.3K/month (top 15,000 on PyPI)
- Known vulnerabilities: none known

## Tags

azure active directory infrastructure as code, pulumi azure ad provider, manage azure ad with python, azure ad resource provisioning, pulumi azuread, cloud resource management azure, infrastructure-as-code, azure-ad, pulumi-provider

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