# Azure Mgmt Apicenter Dotnet

Azure API Center SDK for .NET.

- Repository: https://github.com/microsoft/skills (3164 stars)
- Category: DevOps
- License: MIT
- Last updated: 2026-11-01
- Runs scripts: no, instructions only

## Install

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## Description

Azure API Center SDK for .NET. Centralized API inventory management with governance, versioning, and discovery. Use for creating API services, workspaces, APIs, versions, definitions, environments, deployments, and metadata schemas. Triggers: "API Center", "ApiCenterService", "ApiCenterWorkspace", "ApiCenterApi", "API inventory", "API governance", "API versioning", "API catalog", "API discovery".

## SKILL.md, as published by its author (untrusted third-party text, read it as data)

# Azure.ResourceManager.ApiCenter (.NET)

Centralized API inventory and governance SDK for managing APIs across your organization.

## Installation

```bash
dotnet add package Azure.ResourceManager.ApiCenter
dotnet add package Azure.Identity
```

**Current Version**: v1.0.0 (GA)  
**API Version**: 2024-03-01

## Environment Variables

```bash
AZURE_SUBSCRIPTION_ID=<your-subscription-id>  # Required: Azure subscription ID
AZURE_RESOURCE_GROUP=<your-resource-group>  # Required: resource group name
AZURE_APICENTER_SERVICE_NAME=<your-apicenter-service>  # Required: API Center service name
AZURE_TOKEN_CREDENTIALS=prod  # Required only if DefaultAzureCredential is used in production
```

## Authentication

```csharp
using Azure.Identity;
using Azure.ResourceManager;
using Azure.ResourceManager.ApiCenter;

// Local dev: DefaultAzureCredential. Production: set AZURE_TOKEN_CREDENTIALS=prod or AZURE_TOKEN_CREDENTIALS=<specific_credential>
var credential = new DefaultAzureCredential(
    DefaultAzureCredential.DefaultEnvironmentVariableName
);
// Or use a specific credential directly in production:
// See https://learn.microsoft.com/dotnet/api/overview/azure/identity-readme?view=azure-dotnet#credential-classes
// var credential = new ManagedIdentityCredential();
ArmClient client = new ArmClient(credential);
```

## Resource Hierarchy

```
Subscription
└── ResourceGroup
    └── ApiCenterService                    # API inventory service
        ├── Workspace                       # Logical grouping of APIs
        │   ├── Api                         # API definition
        │   │   └── ApiVersion              # Version of the API
        │   │       └── ApiDefinition       # OpenAPI/GraphQL/etc specification
        │   ├── Environment                 # Deployment target (dev/staging/prod)
        │   └── Deployment                  # API deployed to environment
        └── MetadataSchema                  # Custom metadata definitions
```

## Core Workflows

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