Spring Cloud Azure Resource Manager

This article applies to: ✅ Version 4.19.0 ✅ Version 5.19.0

Azure Resource Manager (ARM) is the deployment and management service for Azure. It provides a management layer that enables you to create, update, and delete resources in your Azure account. Spring Cloud Azure Resource Manager can help provision resources or retrieve resource metadata.

Dependency setup

<dependency>
  <groupId>com.azure.spring</groupId>
  <artifactId>spring-cloud-azure-resourcemanager</artifactId>
</dependency>

Configuration

Note

If you choose to use a security principal to authenticate and authorize with Microsoft Entra ID for accessing an Azure resource, see Authorize access with Microsoft Entra ID to make sure the security principal has been granted the sufficient permission to access the Azure resource.

Configurable properties of spring-cloud-azure-resourcemanager:

Property	Description
spring.cloud.azure.resource-manager.enabled	Whether the Resource Manager is enabled. Default is true.
spring.cloud.azure.credential.client-id	Client ID to use when performing service principal authentication with Azure.
spring.cloud.azure.credential.client-secret	Client secret to use when performing service principal authentication with Azure.
spring.cloud.azure.credential.client-certificate-path	Path of a PEM certificate file to use when performing service principal authentication with Azure.
spring.cloud.azure.credential.client-certificate-password	Password of the certificate file.
spring.cloud.azure.credential.username	Username to use when performing username/password authentication with Azure.
spring.cloud.azure.credential.password	Password to use when performing username/password authentication.
spring.cloud.azure.credential.managed-identity-enabled	Whether to enable managed identity.
spring.cloud.azure.profile.cloud-type	Name of the Azure cloud to connect to.
spring.cloud.azure.profile.environment.active-directory-endpoint	The Microsoft Entra endpoint to connect to for authentication.
spring.cloud.azure.profile.subscription-id	Subscription ID to use when connecting to Azure resources.
spring.cloud.azure.profile.tenant-id	Tenant ID for Azure resources. The values allowed for tenant-id are: common, organizations, consumers, or the tenant ID.
spring.cloud.azure.azure-service.namespace	The namespace of the Azure service to provision resources with.
spring.cloud.azure.azure-service.resource.resource-group	The resource group holding an Azure service resource.

Basic usage

Spring Cloud Azure Resource Manager can work together with specific Spring Cloud Azure starters to retrieve connection information, such as connection strings, to connect to Azure services. It can also work together with spring-cloud-azure-starter and third-party libraries to retrieve metadata like username/password, and to complete authentication. For more information, see Spring Cloud Azure Kafka Support and Spring Cloud Azure Redis Support.

For example, to retrieve the connection string of an Azure Service, developers can use a service principal as the credential to authenticate and retrieve the connection string. The configuration is listed the follows. The provided service principal should be assigned a role of Contributor of the associated namespace at least. See Authorize access with Microsoft Entra ID to make sure the principal has been granted the sufficient permission to access the Azure resource.

spring:
  cloud:
    azure:
      credential:
        client-id: ${AZURE_CLIENT_ID}
        client-secret: ${AZURE_CLIENT_SECRET}
      profile:
        tenant-id: <tenant>
        subscription-id: ${AZURE_SUBSCRIPTION_ID}
      <azure-service>:
        namespace: ${SERVICEBUS_NAMESPACE}
        resource:
          resource-group: ${RESOURCE_GROUP}

Note

The values allowed for tenant-id are: common, organizations, consumers, or the tenant ID. For more information about these values, see the Used the wrong endpoint (personal and organization accounts) section of Error AADSTS50020 - User account from identity provider does not exist in tenant. For information on converting your single-tenant app, see Convert single-tenant app to multitenant on Microsoft Entra ID.

Samples

For more information, see the azure-spring-boot-samples repository on GitHub.