SKILL.md
Azure.ResourceManager.CosmosDB (.NET)
Management plane SDK for provisioning and managing Azure Cosmos DB resources via Azure Resource Manager.
⚠️ Management vs Data Plane
- This SDK (Azure.ResourceManager.CosmosDB): Create accounts, databases, containers, configure throughput, manage RBAC
- Data Plane SDK (Microsoft.Azure.Cosmos): CRUD operations on documents, queries, stored procedures execution
Installation
dotnet add package Azure.ResourceManager.CosmosDB
dotnet add package Azure.Identity
Current Versions: Stable v1.4.0, Preview v1.4.0-beta.13
Environment Variables
AZURE_SUBSCRIPTION_ID=<your-subscription-id>
# For service principal auth (optional)
AZURE_TENANT_ID=<tenant-id>
AZURE_CLIENT_ID=<client-id>
AZURE_CLIENT_SECRET=<client-secret>
Authentication
using Azure.Identity;
using Azure.ResourceManager;
using Azure.ResourceManager.CosmosDB;
// Always use DefaultAzureCredential
var credential = new DefaultAzureCredential();
var armClient = new ArmClient(credential);
// Get subscription
var subscriptionId = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("AZURE_SUBSCRIPTION_ID");
var subscription = armClient.GetSubscriptionResource(
new ResourceIdentifier($"/subscriptions/{subscriptionId}"));
Resource Hierarchy
ArmClient
└── SubscriptionResource
└── ResourceGroupResource
└── CosmosDBAccountResource
├── CosmosDBSqlDatabaseResource
│ └── CosmosDBSqlContainerResource
│ ├── CosmosDBSqlStoredProcedureResource
│ ├── CosmosDBSqlTriggerResource
│ └── CosmosDBSqlUserDefinedFunctionResource
├── CassandraKeyspaceResource
├── GremlinDatabaseResource
├── MongoDBDatabaseResource
└── CosmosDBTableResource
