Microsoft Azure Relationships management client library for .NET

Azure Relationships are a resource type used to create links or connections between resources. These relationships enable the grouping and management of resources across different scopes, such as subscriptions and resource groups.

  • Relationship = a semantic association between a source and target.
  • Resources = physical or logical Azure assets, above or below ARM.

Microsoft.Relationships enables building a knowledge graph that powers:

  • Service health triage
  • Change management
  • Security and compliance reporting
  • Outage root cause analysis
  • Dependency Mapping

Using this management library, you can programmatically provision and update relationships of type DependencyOf, as well as add members to service groups.

This library follows the new Azure SDK guidelines, and provides many core capabilities:

- Support MSAL.NET, Azure.Identity is out of box for supporting MSAL.NET.
- Support [OpenTelemetry](https://opentelemetry.io/) for distributed tracing.
- HTTP pipeline with custom policies.
- Better error-handling.
- Support uniform telemetry across all languages.

Getting started

Install the package

Install the Microsoft Azure Relationships management library for .NET with NuGet:

dotnet add package Azure.ResourceManager.Relationships --prerelease

Prerequisites

Authenticate the Client

To create an authenticated client and start interacting with Microsoft Azure resources, see the quickstart guide here.

Key concepts

Key concepts of the Microsoft Azure SDK for .NET can be found here.

Documentation

Documentation is available to help you learn how to use this package:

Examples

Code samples for using the management library for .NET can be found in the following locations

Troubleshooting

Next steps

For more information about Microsoft Azure SDK, see this website.

Contributing

For details on contributing to this repository, see the contributing guide.

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This project has adopted the Microsoft Open Source Code of Conduct. For more information, see the Code of Conduct FAQ or contact opencode@microsoft.com with any other questions or comments.